Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Gawker

  • Reddit General Manager Erik Martin on Violentacrez and the Gawker Bans

    influential users, and as Gawker put it: "the biggest troll on the web." The user, violentacrez, a programmer from a Dallas suburb, had moderated some of the largest subreddits on the site, as well as some of the most controversial - subreddits like ...

    www.forbes.com

  • Heather Clem, Gawker, Hulk Hogan, Bubba the Love Sponge scandal: Sex tape ...

    Hulk Hogan, also known as Terry Bollea, and Bubba the Love the Sponge, also known as Todd Clem, are two of the most well-known personalities in the Tampa Bay area.

    www.abc15.com

  • Hulk Hogan Sues Gawker for $100M Over Sex Tape

    TAMPA (CN) - Hulk Hogan sued Gawker and its founder for $100 million, claiming the "loathsome defendants" posted a secretly recorded video of him having sex on Gawker.com and refuse to remove it. "Defendants' posting of the video excerpts at the ...

    www.courthousenews.com

  • Robot-Human Charisma Wars: The Second Gawker 2012 Presidential Debate ...

    Robot-Human Charisma Wars: The Second Gawker 2012 Presidential Debate Liveblog For what seems like the second time in the last thirteen days, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will stride on stage tonight and pretend, for a few moments, to not be ...

    gawker.com

  • Bubba the Love Sponge, Gawker, Hulk Hogan sex tap case: Bubba responds to ...

    A lawsuit naming Gawker Media as the main defendant to the tune of $100 million was released Tuesday, even as Bubba the Love Sponge Clem took to the airwaves from his studio in Tampa to defend his honor, and decry the claims of Hulk Hogan.

    www.wptv.com

  • Hulk Hogan Sues Gawker for $100 Million

    On Monday, Hulk Hogan filed a lawsuit against the website Gawker, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa, claiming $100 million in damages for posting portions of a sex tape featuring Hogan having sex with the wife of his ...

    www.jdjournal.com

  • Outing online sexual predators is a sensationalist stopgap

    Last week, Gawker's Adrian Chen published a story claiming to unmask "The biggest troll on the web." It's hard to believe that anyone can objectively determine the winner of that title, but Michael Brutsch, a 49-year-old computer programmer from ...

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Hulk Hogan Sues Gawker Over Leaked Sex Tape Co-Starring His Friend's Wife

    Gawker was named in a $100 million lawsuit filed by Hogan -- whose real name is Terry Bollea -- over a sex tape the Hulkster made with the wife of his best friend, Florida-based DJ "Bubba the Love Sponge.

    blogs.villagevoice.com

  • Reddit CEO Speaks Out On Violentacrez In Leaked Memo: 'We Stand for Free ...

    This evening, Reddit CEO Yishan Wong finally weighed in on the Violentacrez scandal, saying that Reddit will not ban 'distasteful' content, while condemning Reddit moderators' widespread ban on Gawker links. Wong, a former Facebook engineer who ...

    gawker.com

  • Heather Clem, Gawker sued over Hulk Hogan sex tape

    It's unclear who gave the video to Gawker. In the suit against the Clemses, Hogan claimed the video caused "severe and irreparable injury which cannot be adequately compensated by monetary damages.

    abclocal.go.com

  • Hulk Hogan Sues Gawker For $100 Million For Sex Tape

    [UPDATE: Comments from Gawker's attorney below] Terry Bollea is suing Gawker for $100 million for publishing a one-minute excerpt of a 30-minute sex tape in which he stars.

    gothamist.com

  • The Purpose of Gawker

    Gawker Media begins with a story. I was a newspaper reporter for the Financial Times. It offered unrivalled access to newsmakers in politics and business and some of the smartest colleagues one could find in media.

    gawker.com

  • Hulk Hogan sues Bubba, Gawker over sex tape

    Hogan says he wasn't aware he was being recorded. The release of the video, "which is perceived unfavorably by the public," has diminished Hogan's value, according to the lawsuit.

    www2.tbo.com

  • Reddit CEO in Memo Leaked to Gawker: 'We are Not Going to Ban Distasteful ...

    As the story of notorious Reddit user Violentacrez and the controversial subreddits he moderated sinks its tentacles into the greater Internet, Reddit administrators–known for their laissez-faire attitude towards site moderation–have remained ...

    betabeat.com

  • Hulk Hogan sues Bubba the Love Sponge, Gawker over sex tape

    The reality TV star and former pro wrestler has filed lawsuits against onetime best friend Bubba "The Love Sponge" Clem and Clem's ex-wife Heather as well as Gawker Media, his attorney said Monday afternoon at a press conference in Florida. Bubba and ...

    www.latimes.com

  • The Collected NSFW Videos of Alexis Wright, the Maine Zumba Madam

    The Collected NSFW Videos of Alexis Wright, the Maine Zumba Madam Alexis Wright has been accused of running a prostitution ring out of her Zumba studio in the vacation town of Kennebunk, Maine.

    gawker.com

  • Gawker Outed Reddit's Most Notorious Troll. Why Isn't Law Enforcement Doing ...

    Last week, Gawker's Adrian Chen revealed the real-life identity of one of social news site Reddit's most notorious users.

    www.slate.com

  • Infamous Reddit troll loses job after Gawker expose

    Less than a day after Gawker's Adrian Chen outed Violentacrez, Reddit's most infamous user and inciter (referred to as a "troll" in Internet-speak) has realized his worst fear: getting found out and then fired in real life.

    www.salon.com

  • Gawker's Violentacrez Expose And How 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Predicted ...

    On Friday afternoon, Gawker published a long profile of a Reddit moderator who went by Violentacrez. A Texas programmer in real life, Violentacrez has helped shape Reddit's norms, mentoring and writing documentation for moderators, scrubbing the site ...

    thinkprogress.org

  • Why The Internet Cool Kids Think Gawker Outing Reddit's Violentacrez Is The ...

    On Friday, Gawker published a piece that the Internet Cool Kids had been waiting for. In it, Adrian Chen unmasked one of the volunteer moderators of Reddit, a site for sharing news, info, pics and links that, like Facebook and Google, sends a lot of ...

    www.forbes.com

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