Beyond good and evil and morals, I think Thiel is being really gentlemanly about this. How hard would it have been to get very good looking people to seduce the

Beyond good and evil and morals, I think Thiel is being really gentlemanly about this. How hard would it have been to get very good looking people to seduce the people responsible (or their spouses, offsprings, parents), have some wild stuff going on, get that on video, and publish that online... Would Gawker still feel as strongly about freedom of expression when their significant other's or their daughters'/sons'/parents' legs are spread all over the internet? If that video was sent to them, would they publish something like "Watch the sextape of the people who pulblished Hogan's sextape", I can think of many, many ways Thiel could have harmed them. He's a very smart man and I'm sure he could think of many more, but he held back going at it in a civilized manner only legally backing a law-suit.