Gawker CEO Nick Denton has chimed in on Twitter about the police raid on Jason Chen’s house:
Do bloggers count as journalists? I guess we’ll find out.
The bigger question is “Did Gawker break the law?” If the answer is yes, then it doesn’t matter if bloggers have the same rights as butchers, really. Stolen property is stolen property, no matter whose hands end up on it. Denton’s question is a straw man, nothing more.