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Thiel-Gawker Case Divides Silicon Valley
- jacobolus 10y agoFrom what I can tell, most people who have weighed in on the subject seem to agree that both (a) Gawker is a bottom-feeding gossip rag with no moral standing, and (b) Thiel is a cowardly hypocrite who publicly claims to be a “libertarian” while secretly coopting the apparatus of the court to get personal revenge based on an old grudge. Is anyone who isn’t a VC pal of Thiel’s really “divided” here?
- fidjsa 10y agoFrom what I can tell, most people who say that most people agree tend to insert their own opinions as though it's universal.
- Phlarp 10y agoAt least he had the stones to post his opinions under the flag of his own identity.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoAre there any non-billionaires on the side of Thiel? Maybe I run in the loser crowd, but it's hard to support billionaires who use the courts and millions of dollars to address their grudges. When is that good for society? Showing that video was gross. But do we want to live in a world where super rich folks use their wealth to destroy people or groups they don't like? I don't want Donald Trump to wipe out investigative journalism.
- internaut 10y agoHave you heard of false equivalence?