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It’s fine to disagree with Gawker. They certainly have screwed up sometimes, but there’s a reason we made freedom of the press, the first amendment. Why can’t Silicon Valley counter speech with speech?

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In 2012, celebrity gossip website Gawker published a sex tape depicting wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan having sex with a friend’s wife. Hogan sued Gawker in what may be the biggest free speech case of the century.

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For three years, Dunham has been the subject of wild moral panics whipped up by the left.

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In a digital media culture where clicks are of extremely high value, one’s personal ethics seem to be on the line every single day.

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It certainly sounds like he did.

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Are you ready for the next big racial tension story?

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She’s built a massive following of over a million fans, was named one of the Most Influential People on the Internet by Time, and wrote a New York Times Bestseller.

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Offensive articles are also just such a small part of what we do, not only in terms of what brings in reads, but in terms of the actual number of articles we publish.

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Stop watching the news. Stop following unhappy current events. Don’t participate in anything that makes you unhappy. Go outside. Leave. Pretend it doesn’t exist.

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Here at Thought Catalog however, where thoughts are thinked, we will not stand for it.