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I wish the author had spent more time dissecting the actual merits of the Sovereign Individual thesis and why SV billionaires find it credible, and less time hu

I wish the author had spent more time dissecting the actual merits of the Sovereign Individual thesis and why SV billionaires find it credible, and less time hurling bilious invective at Thiel. Also, his summary of the whole Gawker affair is absurdly skewed -- Gawker was a terrible website that used the protections of our free society to ruin people's lives, and Thiel used our free society's libel laws to bankrupt it. He played by the rules and won in that case.

selimthegrim 7y ago
Anti barratry/champerty statutes went away because people were harassing the NAACP, not because we wanted to enable any rich guy squashing people saying things he doesn’t like about him. What next? UK libel laws? The class system all over again?
- sdinsn 7y ago
  So are you claiming that Gawker had the right to distribute Hogan's sex tape?
  - selimthegrim 7y ago
    Couldn’t Hogan have funded his lawsuit with whatever the final Gawker offer was Thiel rejected?