Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker “victims” like Hulk Hogan sue the company, in act of “deterrence”
yet Chris Morran / Consumerist : Gawker Media Looking For A Buyer Amid Hulk Hogan Legal Battle Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Peter Thiel's Gawker Suit Is Another Free Speech Debacle for Facebook Elizabeth Spiers : On Peter Thiel and Gawker Shawn Knight / TechSpot : PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Amie Tsang / New York Times : Morning Agenda: Peter Thiel's Secret War With Gawker Kristen V. Brown / Fusion : Why Silicon Valley hates Gawker Ezra Klein / Vox : Gawker was irresponsible, but the precedent Peter Thiel is setting is dangerous Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair : Peter Thiel: Crushing Gawker Is One of the Best Things I've Done Tweets: Jacob Remes / @jacremes : 1 @EVKontorovich argues here that Thiel is just doing what the ACLU and other public interest law organizations do http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @politico : How one billionaire did the impossible — make people sympathize with @Gawker http://www.politico.com/... via @jackshafer in @POLITICOMag Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon : Peter Thiel “has done the impossible: He's made us sympathize with Gawker.” http://www.politico.com/... See also Mediagazer