Must See Documentary on Gawker and Hulk Hogan
If you haven't had the chance, attention, or time to watch Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, a Netflix-produced documentary about Hogan v Gawker. Go watch it. Directed by Bryan Knappenberger, It's one of the best documentaries of 2017.
As U.S. citizens, the doc makes the point that we are allowing our democracy and one of the [if not the] most important principles of the nation--free speech and a free press--to be overpowered by petulant billionaires. Thiel has modeled himself on a composite of Bond villains(see e.g. passion for "seasteading"). And he is as powerful IRL as those fictional ones were in the movies.
Incidentally, if WWE allows Hulk back on the payroll after his racist rants against black men, I'll know for sure the U.S. is marching backwards in time.
As U.S. citizens, the doc makes the point that we are allowing our democracy and one of the [if not the] most important principles of the nation--free speech and a free press--to be overpowered by petulant billionaires. Thiel has modeled himself on a composite of Bond villains(see e.g. passion for "seasteading"). And he is as powerful IRL as those fictional ones were in the movies.
Incidentally, if WWE allows Hulk back on the payroll after his racist rants against black men, I'll know for sure the U.S. is marching backwards in time.
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