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RESPONSE by Meanith Huonin Opposition to MOTION by Defendants Nick Denton, Gabby Darbyshire, Irin Carmon, Gawker Media, Jezebel.com to dismiss Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint 57 (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit A, # 3 Exhibit B, # 4 Exhibit C, # 5 Exhibit D, # 6 Exhibit E, # 7 Exhibit F, # 8 Exhibit G)(Huon, Meanith)

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Gawker Media
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gawker Media is an American online media
company and blog network, founded and owned by
Nick Denton basedin New York City. It is considered
lll to b" one of the most visible and successfulblogoriented media companies.As of March 2010, it is the
parent company for 11 different weblogs:
Gawker.com,Fleshbot,Deadspin,Lifehacker,
Gizmodo, io9, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel,Gawker.tv,
and Cityfile. All Gawker articles are licensedon a
Creative Commons attribution-NonCommercial
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Blog network
Nick Denton (Publisher)
Remy Stern(Gawker.com)
Adam Pash(Lifehacker)
Will Leitch (Deadspin)
(Kotaku)
Brian Crecente
Jessica
Coen(Jezebel)
AnnaleeNewitz (io9)
Ray Wert (Jalopnik)
JoeBrown (Gizmodo)
Lux Alptraum (Fleshbot)

Launched

Revenueand traffic

January2003

Current
status

Active

While Denton does not go into detail over Gawker
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be better for readersthan for capitalists. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the
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Fleshbot is a sex-oriented
weblog, publishedby Gawker
Media. It was launchedin November2003 as the third
online title from Gawker.The rangeof subjectmatter
includeseverythingfrom amateursex blogs and
thumbnail gallery poststo news about sex in popular
culture and advertising.The blog coversboth
heterosexual homosexual
and
eroticatll and usershave
the ability to filter betweenthe two if they choose.

Fleshbot

Fleshbotis editedby Lux Alptraum (formerly Lux
Nightmare).
Fleshbotappears the ACMA Blacklist (seeInternet
on
censorship Australia) that was released Wikileaks
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on March 20,2009.P1

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English

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GawkerMedia

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2003

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GawkerandactorsErie DaneandRebecca
Gayheart been
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threesome
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Peniche
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versionof the sextapeandrefusedto
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