
(Please note: Peter Thiel allegedly supports this candidate.) That’s outrageous because it hinders a correspondent's ability to maintain their integrity and report the facts about the candidate.

Gawker hypocrisy plus#
Sound familiar? Plus he limits press access and exiles the people and publications that piss him off. The frightening man wants to use the legal system to silence his critics. A leading candidate for president wants to curb the press and boasts that he will change our country’s libel laws because he doesn’t like what news outlets say about him. Our society and culture suffer when freedom of speech or expression is oppressed or curtailed. We live in an era when writers and reporters and journalism and free speech is under constant attack. They usually attack less prominent, far less wealthy people that simply can’t defend themselves.” He said that “even someone like Terry Bollea who is a millionaire and famous and a successful person didn’t quite have the resources to do this alone.” Most of the people they attack are not people in my category.

Thiel said that Gawker published articles that were “very painful and paralyzing for people who were targeted.” He said, “I thought it was worth fighting back.” Mr. “I saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with the public interest.” Mr. “It’s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence,” he said on Wednesday in his first interview since his identity was revealed. He funded a team of lawyers to find and help “victims” of the company’s coverage mount cases against Gawker. Thiel to mount a clandestine war against Gawker. A 2007 article published by Gawker’s Valleywag blog was headlined, “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people.” That and a series of articles about his friends and others that he said “ruined people’s lives for no reason” drove Mr.
