Gawker are scum. They disobeyed a court order. They deserved the lawsuit. If you want freedom of speech to out people and attack everyone, expect people with money to use said money to fight back legally. It's their freedom too.
If anything, this is not a problem of freedom of speech. This is an old legal problem: "the rich have money to pay the lawyers and the poor don't".
But in this case, Hulk Hogan is 100% right, and Thiel is doing society a favor.
Peter Thiel didn't use his money to bribe anyone, he didn't do anything illegal for Hulk. The court made a decision and Gawker needs to live with the consequences...
A lot of people feel Gawker was a member of their tribe. It's the old "He's a bastard, but he's our bastard" thing.
Because they are regressive libtards. There is no other explanation.
I mean we all know conservatives and liberals don't understand each other and talk a different language but there's something interesting here to unpack.
Instead of developing a Babelfish (realtime universal language translator) for ordinary languages, imagine if we could slip a little yellow fish into the ears of liberals and conservatives so they fully comprehended what the others were saying to them.
I imagine their heads would explode. But assuming they did not it would be interesting.