It's a little disingenuous to call what Gawker does "dissent". It's also disingenuous to pretend Gawker has some new and clever business model - it's just tabloid journalism without the sort of brakes a good lawyer and basic human decency would normally provide.

Also it's odd the way the author shoehorns Donald Trump in at every opportunity. I get the impression the article would never have been written if Thiel didn't have a connection to someone the author despises.