This is a long and very entertaining read. If you want to skip to the main accusation of hypocrisy, it is:<p><pre><code> Speaking of facts: While presenting itself as the champion
of the working classes, the fact is Dentons Gawker empire is
guilty of almost every crime it accuses the tech industry of
committing, and several it doesnt. Denton, who now
encourages others to sneer at Silicon Valleys elite social
clubs, made his own millions as co-founder of First Tuesday,
an elite social club which spanned Europe during the first
dot com boom. While crying foul at the off-shore tax dodging
of San Francisco tech companies, Gawker Media is registered
in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying US taxes, an
arrangement which the New Yorker described as like an
international money-laundering operation. As Valleywag howls
that Google interns earn more than you, Gawker Media is
currently the subject of a class action lawsuit over its
earlier refusal to pay its own interns a dime for their
labour. And how about Valleywags mockery of lavish Silicon
Valley workplaces? Why not ask Denton about that when you
visit his steampunk office, featuring a lounge area that
looks like its straight out of the blue pill/red pill scene
in The Matrix, an office surfboard and a rooftop party deck?
Business Insider claims its one of the 15 coolest offices in
tech. And while youre there, make sure to also ask him about
Gawkers Privilege Tournament, a smug little contest in which
Gawker readers were invited to vote on which underprivileged
group (choices include: black, blind, transgender, people
with AIDS, the homeless, overeducated, and fat) should win
by virtue of its sweet, sweet moral superiority or as
Salons Katrina Richardson called the tournament: a
shamefully racist, sexist, homophobic and classist attempt
to silence large swaths of people.</code></pre>