The person who forced Gawker into bankruptcy now wants to buy it, and a group of former employees aren’t having it. Peter Thiel, the billionaire entrepreneur who funded Hulk Hogan’s massive invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker, now wants to buy the remaining assets at auction. In response, The Gawker Foundation has started a $500,000 Kickstarter campaign to save the blog.

Here is the ‘About’ description from the campaign,

Gawker isn’t gone, it’s up for auction. The person who drove the site into bankruptcy wants to buy it. We’re a group of former Gawker Media employees across editorial, tech, and business, and we want to put in our own bid to buy it back. We believe the site can thrive in an entirely membership funded model. The Gawker Foundation is a non-profit with a dual mission: 1.) Preserve the Gawker.com archives and make them accessible. 2.) Relaunch the site under the stewardship of former editors, new writers, and an entirely membership-funded model.

Gawker’s sister sites were sold to Univision in Aug. 2016 for $135 million following Gawker Media’s bankruptcy, but the bankruptcy plan administrator has yet to sell Gawker.com. Of particular interest to Thiel and the former employees are the 13 years of Gawker archives up for grabs, which could be deleted or monetized, depending on the buyer. This includes articles about sexual predators, often years before these powerful men were unmasked, including Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Louis CK, Bill O’Reilly, Terry Richardson, Kevin Spacey, James Toback, Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.

The final article was posted Aug. 22, 2016 by Gawker founder Nick Denton, the last of a series of farewell posts that leave a fitting reminder of the passion and loyalty the writers felt for Gawker. Despite the year-and-a-half hiatus, many of the former employees feel the blog could pick back up where it left off, and, according to the Kickstarter, they intend to fullfill their original mission, with or without the URL.

If we don’t raise enough money to buy the site, we will preserve the archive and launch a new publication under a different name. We’re bringing this back whether we have the Gawker URL or not.

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