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Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
https://medium.com/@owenthomas/gawker-peter-thiel-and-me-f80...
Didn't he move to that place where nazis went ?
Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
All of these people really deserve each other.
Edit: also for bonus points, him getting outed in such a dangerous place is ironic as all hell, given that he didn't need to be there apart from wanting money out of the Saudi royal family.
Like I wouldn't want to be outed while there either, but my answer is I wouldn't fucking go to Saudi Arabia with a gun to my head, and I certainly wouldn't be sucking up to the crown prince for m(b?)illions of dollars for my disinformation machine. But I guess principles are for the poors.
Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
PolyMarket and Kalshi are sort of doing that, you could say, adjudication is a valuable service for gambling.
I've always thought that the chatbots were much better judges than lawyers. Some real US courts are adopting chatbots for clerical tasks. Hard to say if you can directly sell the services of judging in a general sense, seemingly the only way that is done is for gambling.
separately, @dang, is it possible to just cut out the vamping about anything at the top level that isn't really about what is being written
Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
Gawker outing people against their wishes, the person they outed being one of the larger avatars of the crypto-fascist right, who worked with one of the biggest co-conspirators of Vince McMahon's brutal anti-union activities to destroy them for strictly personal reasons. All of these people really deserve each other. Edit: also for bonus points, him getting outed in such a dangerous place is ironic as all hell, given…
Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
It's not like Saudi Arabia cares whether some billionaire Western businessman is gay or not. They also don't care that he's a bigot and an Islamophobe, and he doesn't care that they are Arab, outwardly Muslim, or any other thing he detests. They all worship money.
Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
Free press is already under attack in so many countries, it is dangerous that now a single rich guy can weaponize his unlimited resources to wage legal war over his own personal vendettas because his ego got hurt.
> We’re the first people to sell adjudication as a service PolyMarket and Kalshi are sort of doing that, you could say, adjudication is a valuable service for gambling. I've always thought that the chatbots were much better judges than lawyers. Some real US courts are adopting chatbots for clerical tasks. Hard to say if you can directly sell the services of judging in a general sense, seemingly the only way that is d…
@dang does nothing, email the mods if it's something you care about. Downvoting and flagging are the usual ways to deal with off-topic discussions, though the mods do occasionally create a "stub for off-topicness" and move comments under an auto-collapsed comment of theirs. Again, though, @dang won't reach him, email the mods.