An aside, and an unnecessary one, but after reading your [1] reference, I cannot say how happy I am that Thiel was able to shut down Gawker. That reference read

An aside, and an unnecessary one, but after reading your [1] reference, I cannot say how happy I am that Thiel was able to shut down Gawker. That reference read like a cheap supermarket tabloid, and the internet is better for Gawker having been destroyed.