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How many cruel and unnecessary stories must Gawker publish before people realize this isn't a fun site to browse over their cereal? Contact Gawker's advertisers here: Look, any good digital journalist understands the importance of traffic. You just have to be a decent human being. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. On social media, commentators have reacted with near-universal condemnation: Michael Calderone contributed reporting.

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Asian Voices. HuffPost Personal. Special Projects. Project Zero. This New World. Listen to America. Read is posing as her chivalrous defender: His self-proclaimed mission is to protect this little lady from the harm that has been inflicted on her. This is far and away the most common justification cited for sniffing around in the private, sexual lives of people: But even if one wants to pretend that the sentiment is genuine, the logical flaw is glaring and obvious.

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Long-term marriage between two complex adults is a very complicated dynamic to navigate. People invent all sorts of ways to manage that.

Everyone left, right, and center was in violent agreement with Greenwald on Friday: What Gawker did—outing this nobody—was wrong, marriage is complicated, there may not have been any victims here other than the guy who was outed , and even if the wife in this case was being victimized by her husband's conduct, it's still nobody else's business. Which brings us to today's big adultery news. From Business Insider:. Extramarital affair website Ashley Madison has been hacked and attackers are threatening to leak data online. Around 37 million people will be extremely nervous Monday after the extramarital-affair website Ashley Madison was hacked and the details posted online.

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The Canadian-based site sells itself with the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair. The group is threatening to release all customer records, including sexual fantasies, credit-card details, and real names and addresses, unless Ashley Madison and Established Men are taken offline permanently. The news about the Ashley Madison hack is also generating a lot of outrage—but it's not directed at the hackers who are threatening to out not just one guy for cheating on his spouse, but 37,, people who may have cheated on their spouses or may have merely contemplated cheating on their spouses long enough to create an account at Ashley Madison.

People are furious this time with the cheaters, not the outers. Here's what I'm seeing in Twitter:. No one should have their personal information released without their consent, but you can't help but laugh. An act of Karma So everyone outraged by what Gawker did to that one guy is equally outraged by what hackers are doing 37m AshleyMadison customers - right? Not really. Partners they're cheating on didn't consent.

Not a ton of sympathy. Hackers suck, but so do cheaters. Now, I know that Gawker is a news site that does journalism yes, they do journalism , and that as journalists they're held to a higher standard—by themselves and others—than a bunch of anonymous hackers. But the violation is exactly the same: People who may or may not have been cheating on their spouses are going to be outed, their lives could be upended, their children could be traumatized. Cheaters deserve to be exposed! Long-term marriage, like Glenn Greenwald says, is a complicated dynamic, and people invent all sorts of ways to manage that complicated, long-term dynamic—and, yes, cheating is one of the ways people manage that dynamic.