My issue is that by selectively choosing what he does and does not finance, he is influencing things in his personal favour. I would far prefer the bllionaires

My issue is that by selectively choosing what he does and does not finance, he is influencing things in his personal favour. I would far prefer the bllionaires in our society financing a big pool of money that then indescriminately funds the 'little guy' against the big corporation, so that the bias of money is removed from our legal system. Instead, this current process of being able to selectively target lawsuits means that the rich can indeed influence things in a biased fashion via their money. I'm all for Thiel to have it out with Gawker, but should that not be on his own valid legal claims? By funding this lawsuit in particular, he's negatively impacting other suits by omission. Basically, if money can't be kept out of the legal system then the money shouldn't be able to selectively enter it either, because either result produces a bias of the optimal situation where two equally strong legal teams debate a case in front of an impartial judge on its merits.