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Jurors comment on their verdict in the Gawker-Hulk Hogan trial, which awarded a nine-figure settlement to Hogan that, if upheld, should purge the foetid abcess that is Gawker from existence, blessedly, forever.

The Gawker tried to argue they have a First Amendment right to trash peoples’ rights to privacy – using the cunning legal theory that “we’re entitled to”.

Well, close enough:

The jurors had strong words for Gawker founder Nick Denton and the website’s former editor-in-chief, A.J. Daulerio, who was ordered in the verdict to pay Hogan $100,000 in punitive damages.

“I mean there was a quote in there that it was fair game for a celebrity that’s over five to be exposed, and we’re like, ‘What?,’ and this was a quote from A.J.,” O’Neil said. “You could tell he didn’t want to be there. He was very arrogant, very pompous in his response and he made that statement at the end.”

“I think it made everybody, it made me pause, and I was just like, ‘You did not say that,'” he said. “That means you really do think you’re above the law and it was that philosophy, we’re Gawker. We can get away with anything.”

“He treated the deposition the way he treats journalism,” Young said, while Eastman called Daulerio, “very flippant.”

Stevens said she was looking at Denton in court while the verdict was being read because she wanted to see whether he would show any signs of remorse. She didn’t believe he displayed any remorse during his testimony.

Rot in hell, Gawker.  And get your hands off the First Amendment.

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