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on Sunday January 29 2017, @04:51PM
from the repeat-something-often-enough... dept.
from the repeat-something-often-enough... dept.
The guy who made himself famous for claiming he created EMAIL, Shiva Ayyadurai, has taken to suing various web sites, social media sites, and bloggers to shut down any contrary talk on the matter. On the surface the business model looks like it might be that of a classic copyright troll. However, given the targets and the backer, could it be the ultimate goal is simply to close down the coverage in general?
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170111/11440836465/techdirts-first-amendment-fight-life.shtml
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @06:15PM
The charlatan got $750 million [fortune.com] out of Gawker as it went under. What a scam. He waited until the inventor of e-mail died to avoid being easily refuted. Now that Thomlinson is gone, he can just run around and extort money from publishers and bloggers. What a lot of nerve.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @06:54PM
Uh, no $750K. Read your own headline.
Gawker didn't even have $750M.