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Some context, for those who haven't been following: - Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker[1] - Hulk Hogan awarded payout over Gaw
by geerlingguy 10y ago
Some context, for those who haven't been following:
- Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker[1]
- Hulk Hogan awarded payout over Gawker sex tapes[2]
- $115M verdict in Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker[3]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774588
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315985
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318100
- stcredzero 10y agoNews flash: Peter Thiel does something productive with a lot of money. (This isn't the first time, but it's still newsworthy when it happens. In no small part, because it doesn't always work.)
- cm2187 10y agoIn your context, you forgot the step before those: - Gawker outs Pether Thiel
- nailer 10y agoAlso missing from the timeline: - Gawker publishes a person's sex tape without their consent.
- fullshark 10y agoThe tape was created without his consent also for the purpose of blackmail.
- smt88 10y agoYou forgot a step before that: - Peter Thiel is a hard-core activist for individual rights, including freedom of speech Thiel is pro-freedom when it suits him and anti-freedom when it doesn't. In my opinion, he has lobbied for a world where journalists can "out" people, and now he's taking revenge when it happens to harm him.
- antisthenes 10y agoSo just like any typical self-proclaimed libertarian, who is completely unaware of all the government benefits and protections they are allowed to have because it exists?