About the lawsuits that he bankrolled that shut down a press outlet, he himself said: "I strongly believe in the First Amendment" [...] "I believe journalists are a privileged group in our society. They play an important role in getting us information and in the system of checks and balances. But these were not journalists." https://www.engadget.com/2016-10-31-peter-thiel-silicon-vall...

It is my honest opinion that Thiel is a hypocrite and is a libertarian only if and when it's convenient to him.

In this quote, he's letting himself off the hook for undermining the First Amendment protection of the press, which he also did covertly, btw, by claiming that his targets were not journalists when they were.

I'm not saying they weren't scumbags for publishing what they did, but he doesn't get to have it both ways. That's the point.