My thoughts beyond the jokes:
There seems to be this massive differing opinion that "journalists" of Gawker Media and some of its outlets have versus that of regular people regarding what should or shouldn't be news. People's private lives are just that their private lives, it is nobody's business what other people do unless you are beholden to them (spouse, children, etc
. I would argue the President of the U.S. should be held in that regard to some extent because they are supposed to represent the people and our country itself. The thought that "we have this tape and people have the 'right' to know" baffles me. I don't care if Peter Theil is gay or whatever the hell Hogan does. It is between them and their loved ones.
We have come to live in a hyper connected society and it has all happened super fast. Laws haven't been able to even start to catch up partially because the people making the laws are out of touch with technology and don't understand 2% of it. There has been this loss of morals and good taste in our society that is really sad though. At the same time personal accountability has plummeted. Nobody will own their mistakes anymore.
The fact that in a deposition one of the people from Gawker said that child porn of a celebrity would be news is sickening. 4 years old would be his moral stopping point. I have no idea what the hell to even say to that, personally I wouldn't call it news I'd call it evidence. Evidence for the police to hunt down whomever did that horrible shit. Hulk Hogan was well within his right to sue Gawker and Thiel was well within his right to bankroll it. A jury of peers deemed Gawker to have overstepped and they will pay for it. Sadly some of the good journalists from that company and their families may be impacted because of terrible judgement from others in that same company.