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- Whether Gawker was awful or not is beside the point, those same mourners will weep. Gawker did some horrible things but it was an important voice! It’s a first amendment principle! First they came for the sex tape peddlers!
I get it. I do. Anyone who read Thiel’s grotesquely disingenuous op-ed in Times (in which he reminds us of his support for Donald Trump) gets it.
But one only has to glance at Gawker’s archive (I recommend smearing Vick’s below your nose first, or smoking a cigar) to see Gawker’s deathbed hypocrisy in stark relief.