Gawker published something true-a 1:41 portion of a video of Hogan having sex with his best friend's wife (at said friend's invitation) that Hogan did not know was being shot-and he sued over it.Ī Florida court in March 2016 granted Hogan $141 million in compensatory and punitive damages against the publication, its publisher, and one of its writers. The web publication Gawker was destroyed via lawsuit for invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress on wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea). government to suppress speech via its tort system. This is not a First Amendment story, but it is a story about the power of U.S. That idea animates a fascinating though infuriating new book that tells the story of a publication forced to recant, then be utterly financially ruined, for publishing something true: Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, and the Anatomy of Intrigue (Portfolio Penguin) by marketing guru Ryan Holiday. Such speech skeptics believe-and they are not wrong!-that free expression can harm either specific people or the culture at large, and thus deserves to be squashed in some circumstances. But I can bet that it will surprise us and that it will make complete sense within his own almost incomprehensible, complete, interior worldview.The old-fashioned belief that free expression is the best way to buttress political freedom, further the quest for truth, and sharpen civic and personal mental acuity is being increasingly abandoned, from thought-leader popular magazines to prominent daily newspaper beat reporters. As a society, particularly here in the US, we face a number of very deep systemic threats, including corruption and strong men, so perhaps there's something to learn from this ruthlessly effective conspiracy that set out to do something that no-one thought was possible, and in fact accomplished that thing. It's pretty remarkable that this 25, 26-year-old manages to predict almost exactly the timeline and budget that results in the unprecedented bankruptcy of a media outlet that was doing, at that time, more than five billion page views a year. He predicts this would take three to five years, that it would cost north of $10 million, but he's very confident they could be successful.
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