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Tom Scocca Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“Gawker.com is out of business because one wealthy person maliciously set out to destroy it, spending millions of dollars in secret, and succeeded. That is the only reason.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker
“Rather than fighting the material that he really objected to, Thiel went looking for pretexts. Over time, he came up with them.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker, Peter Thiel
“This country is failing, in action and in imagination, over and over again already.”
— Tom Scocca, These Are the Bad Times
Tagged: Trump, Bad Times, American Politics, United States, Trump Administration
“A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker
“The message is that Gawker had this coming, that the site was—to some degree, depending on how sympathetic the writer is trying to pose as being—responsible for its own downfall. By now it is conventional wisdom. That conventional wisdom is false.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker
“The change begins with the post about Thiel’s sexual identity in a homophobic investor culture, the post Thiel now cites as the inspiration for his decision to destroy Gawker. It was solidly protected by media law and the First Amendment, as were the other posts that, as Thiel wrote, ‘attacked and mocked people’—specifically, his cohort of rising plutocrats in Silicon Valley. Hurting rich people’s feelings is, in principle, not a punishable offense.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker, First Amendment, Peter Thiel
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