The issue to me seems that it is just accepted that you need lots of money to use the law properly. If it was just some rando who had his sex tape published by

The issue to me seems that it is just accepted that you need lots of money to use the law properly. If it was just some rando who had his sex tape published by gawker shouldn't he be able to sue them and materially affect them? That he can't or there is the widely accepted belief that he can't is the problem. Rich guys have extracted revenge on others since there has been wealth, there is nothing new here except the belief that maybe Hogan somehow wouldn't have had a case without Thiel's help? Or maybe gawker could have delayed and played games to price Hogan out of a law suit or something? How isn't that messed up? Sure I get the fear of tons of frivolous law suits but what about serious ones? The poor can't take part. The Internet has brought on an entire generation of "journalists" without limits, the pendulum will swing back, that's how things tend to work. Gawker and the others were going to continue to push boundaries in the name of profit, not news, until somebody fought back and it should have been long before a celebrity sex tape. It shouldn't take a billionaire backed lawsuit.