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by fweespeech 3597 days ago
> By being sued for invading someone's privacy?

The problem is businesses and politicians also argue they have a right to privacy.

If Privacy > Free Speech, you end up with a situation where revealing abuses by such people becomes extremely risky and expensive.

Just because Gawker and Nick Denton are pieces of shit doesn't make the precedent any less worrying.