Having a Ministry of Information, whether it's public or private in nature, is a horrible idea.

Gawker's counterargument was "but we deliver real news elsewhere!"

Gawker did some legitimate, useful journalism, it just had nothing to do with Peter Thiel or Hulk Hogan. I'm ceding this point to them because Gawker argued that they shouldn't be punished for these cases because of their other, publicly valuable work - and it *doesn't matter* if they fucking broke Watergate 2.0, it…

Man, if you're gonna Godwin right off the bat, you could at least throw a "sheeple" in there.

Presumably if the people who leaked those female celebrities' photos had found a way to make money off of it, and then used that money to fund actual journalism, it would have been OK.

Gawker's business model was to use profitable yellow journalism to fund money-losing actual journalism. The two things that actually did them in - outing Peter Thiel and releasing the Hulk Hogan sex tape - had sweet fuck all to do with the high-minded principles they blathered on about as they lost the case.

I enjoy just about every YouTube cliche that folks hate. I watch Let's Plays, I love react videos, and discovering ASMR was a revelation for me.

And now you know…the rest of the story.

Agreed, but complaining about "Jasons who would rather wipe a team as quickly as possible", and players "grimly determined to kill everyone as quickly as possible as Jason" isn't faulting people for being whiny, it's faulting them for being competitive…in a competitive game.

I think that would require reviewers who don't think playing to win is gauche.

Well, GJI, at least.

Not that the USSR was a force for good, but *man* it's become apparent that it's presence forced the US to be better.

The other aspect that was present in the 1960s and absent now is the USSR. Not that there was any meaningful interaction between them and the members of the Civil Rights movement, but the fact that there was a rival world power ready to discredit the US meant that everyone knew somebody would listen to them if…

George was briefly a cause celebre of the wingnut welfare circuit, until he got jailed for domestic abuse.

Eh, in 2010 I'd say we still hadn't reached the current level of camera omnipresence.

I'm going to guess that you were 19 some time between the end of Jim Crow and the advent of cell phone cameras.

The frickin' National Review called it "a miscarriage of justice".

Which is pretty much only people being given a free stay.

For me it wasn't that they killed Barb, it's that besides one call from her mom to Nancy we get no sign that any adult has really noticed her absence. The entire town is searching for Will, yet a second child vanishing less than a week later doesn't even register. Asking for her to somehow get resurrected is…

We've had a bipolar or unipolar international scene for all of living memory. The idea that there may finally be no one or two states touching everything, everywhere, is starting to break through to governments.