<story><title>Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan&apos;s Lawsuits Against Gawker</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bronz</author><text>gawker put tesla on a death watch. they exploited their struggle and heartbreak, their endeavour to make the world a better place, for clicks. they hosted a video of hulk hogan having sex on their website despite him not wanting them to. maybe people dont realize just how fucked up that is because people tend to dehumanize celebrities. these are not journalists. these people are fucking scum. good riddance. the fact that a billionaire funded hogans case doesnt bother me at all. it reminds me more of bill gates funding malaria research than anything. another parasite wiped out for the betterment of humanity.&lt;p&gt;all the people saying this is creepy because its a billionaire shutting down journalism -- dont make me laugh. these werent journalists. and they sealed their own doom by doing things that were not only mean and cruel but super illegal. they did this to themselves. hogan was going to win that case no matter what.&lt;p&gt;i would have donated to his case given the opportunity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan&apos;s Lawsuits Against Gawker</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>This is another one of those situations you can excuse away through specific context (Valleywag did plenty of crappy things) but the broader play here is worrying: billionaire finances lawsuits he has nothing to do with, in order to take down media entity that he dislikes.&lt;p&gt;I try not to think about the specifics and look at the broader precedent something like this sets and... erk.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: all specifics aside, I think what bothers me most is that he can do this in secret. We only found out because of, wait for it, the media. Maybe he&amp;#x27;ll fund cases against Forbes next?</text></comment>