Billionaire Who Helped Bankrupt Gawker Explains Why
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- Peter Thiel, the billionaire who financially backed Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media, ultimately leading to the media company’s bankruptcy in August, says the site was a “singular sociopathic bully.” PHOTO: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Imagesges
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100% on Peter Thiels side. Most people have NO IDEA about how sadistic and dishonest many of these journalists are
@Dylan Peres What were you trying to prove with that. The case had nothing to do with Donald Trump or freedom of the press. Just because Netflix said it doesn't make it true.
@Dylan Peres are you also against silencing people on social media platforms? Like Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, Sargon of Akkad?
@Dylan Peres Thanks I added another downvote
Hhh
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The lawsuit set a very positive precedent of holding lowlifes to account.
Yes. I can not believe scumbags defend Gawker.
And then America elected two low lifes for president, who are not held to account.
This right here is a perfect example of how your money can be used for good.
Not all heroes wear capes.
To stifle speech you don’t like?b
@@JL_Lux Stifle illegal privacy violations, yeah
@@JL_Lux❌
Totally agree with Peter Thiel on this.
I agree that it is wrong to film people secretly, especially if it's in private matters. But Hogan did know about the tapes, and so did his best friend, the man who filmed it. Should a billionaire be able to shut down voices he dislikes? Even if we agree that Gawker is a horrid publication (and it's certainly not squeaky clean), the principle, surely, remains the same.
So if someone posts a sex tape of your daughter without her consent in order to make profit, you think she should just shut up and have no recourse as long as it is a "news" publication? After all she knew it existed right?
My daughter would deserve the full protection of the law. So does Hulk. The problem is that Peter Thiel funds the case, in order to shut down a publication he personally dislikes. The issue is the control of media by the powerful, whether those powerful people have good intentions or not.
Got it, so your daughter has rights to the protection of law, but it is not okay if you financially help her with the legal bills, or for her to be financially compensated for damages, or impose anything that would stop the "news organization" from violating the rights to others in the future because its a slippery slope..so aka any organization claiming to be news can print anything they want about anyone without any accountability...nice...
No thats not what i mean. But I appreciate that I haven't expressed myself clearly. The taking of anybody's sex tape without their permission is a crime. It is a crime if the person is a celebrity or not. The issue in this case is that Peter Thiel took funded the Hogan case in order to get rid of a media organisation he doesn't like. This is not philanthropic. This is a incredibly powerful person taking out one of his critics. The Hulk hogan case should be no business of Peter Thiels.
This is a growing problem where I am from, Ireland. Wealthy business interests cynically using the court system for personal gain.
It could be argued that Hulk Hogan had a legitimate grievance (although i don't think he was really 'hurt' that much.)
This man is freaking awesome!!! The pieces of trash want to put people's private lives including his out to the world and he stopped it. Well played sir.
2:54 "if you're a single digit millionaire." never heard that one before
Financially OK, but not rich
Those are 99% of 1%.
You're still rich but one medical bill or legal case could send you back to middle class.
I'm a single digit millionaire, only the digit is 0 :(
2:56 “If you’re a single-digit millionaire, you have no effective access to our legal system.”
If that’s true, what has America come to be?! 🤑
1:58, he did tell the truth there, he was only involvde in the "Gawker case", multiple lawsuits against it, not just hulk hogan
shouldn't have outed him
Depressing that a “single digit millionaire” has no access to legal action. 🤨
It’s a lie
Well done Peter! Google next!
Good job Peter this was very necessary
Hulk Hogan & Peter Thiel..... The real Mega Powers!
Whatcha gonna _do_ when this tag team comes for _you_ brother?
Peter Thiel is an Ameriacn hero
Well done Peter
This Thiel bloke is someone who Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg look upto... so if he decides to 'get you', you are done.
I think he’s smart enough not to go after you unless you’ve actually done something wrong. No point fighting a losing battle. Gawker broke federal law
The reason the media is held in such low esteem by the majority of people is that it refuses to govern itself within acceptable guidelines. This is why so many people support Thiel's actions.
You must be watching Fox and OAN if you think that's true.
Don’t know why but i am getting some Mark Zuckerberg vibes from Peter theil
Mr Thiel is a former #paypalMafia lineament...
don't phuck with genius
Who came from Hello Internet
Sociopathic journalists
Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible ... The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.[77]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Views_on_democracy
Based
Unironically based
This case should not just be illustrative of the definitions and dictations of journalism with respect to privacy and ‘love life’. It should be indicative of the idea that a billionaire or a third party can fund behind doors and through little transparency a legal case to sway its outcome. In other words, the idea that private third party back-end funding determines legal outcomes.
Unfortunately very few people seem to understand this...
@@liviusss I love how you’re one of the only woke people to see my message in the web
@@fernsader9261 I've worked with journalists for a long time - some of them are great, others are terrible (just like the rest of us :)). But I believe the press is an essential institution for any civilized, democratic nation, and I think billionaires destroying a publication out of spite/revenge is a scary thing. And maybe what's even scarier it's seing so many people being happy about this - I bet many of them are normally defending freedom of speech (but just for those they agree with). Of course journalists should be held accountable and sanctioned when they are in the wrong, but complete annihilation is a different thing. In some parts of the world they arrest and even kill journalists (and I'm in Europe, close to one of these parts of the world - Russia), in others rich people sue or buy the publication - but the result is the same.
Gawkers is skum media!!!!
Neither of them is right, one being a publication bullying other celebrities, the other trying of hide his sexual identity by abusing his capital.
he never hid his sexuality. he was always openly gay. he was just tired of seeing how gawker went after people trying to destroy lives for profit
@@AntonioRivera28 He did. He's a great entrepreneur but he didn't help the LGBT+ community, he purposely suppress the hiring of minorities at his company.
@@enstai he actually has helped the lgbt community. the lgbt community is its own worst enemy now
Apparently the issue was not him being gay, but some shady business the publication wrote about... I don't think he was hiding that much since he got married.
Gawker didn't make the tape. Peter is completely wrong. The tape was leaked by who? Follow who had the most to gain from the leak. Peter stumbles through this and then caps Gawker a "psychopathic bully"....kettle black much?
Wayne Blackclaw you're kidding me... gawker published the tape. are you naive or ignorant?
With this kind of logic, if I sell drugs, then I should not be punished because I did not produce them.
Actually no because the drug war is 100% unconstitutional & it actually leads to more drugs & more crime! & If you believe gawker should have been shut down but not the NYTIMES for getting us into the Iraq War, your an IDIOT!
there's an entire book about this conspiracy by ryan holiday. Really good read. It's sweet revenge.
@@arturovidal5306 they should, care to pick up the tab?
If Thiel funded the Covington kids' defence fund, the Washington Post would go bankrupt. Instead, they had to settle privately.
Journalists are a privilege in your society??????? I can afford your lawsuit, try me. My dream job was Gawker.
To hide behind the first amendment??
Lots of sociopathy projection here.
it takes one to know one.. sociopaths fighting each other in their own ring is good for everybody.
So a publication that bullied got a taste of their own medicine 😂
Chinobhururuka chinomhara. Bvunza Bhobho
What is respectable and also hilarious is that all the news site tend to spin this super hard in gawkers favor. Then you listen to him talk for himself and he gives a totally reasonable perspective. Also I think posting someone's private sextape is closer to slander than free speech. The founding fathers didn't write the first amendment for people to steal others sexual moments and share them in public. It was to express opinions.
Never considered this angle, and somehow missed the whole controversy when it happened, but totally unsurprised that Peter Thiel is so ahead of the curve with honest, frank insight about the entire affair. Yet again, the man deserves the nation's admiration.
Admiration? "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." - Peter Thiel.
Admiration isn't a word that comes to mind when I think of Thiel. Personally, I'm a fan of America and democracy. Peter Thiel hasn't had a problem with the system that helped facilitate his rise to the top until it was no longer compatible with his worst excesses. Thiel is smart and has his finger on the pulse of the world - he's also petty, frighteningly vindictive and, to put it bluntly, a villain, using his vast wealth to subvert American democracy in favor of a system for the billionaires and only the billionaires. No, I'm sorry, this isn't a man worthy of admiration.
@@jpkjnn6733 lol okay stay mad.
Looking back, what a hero Peter was. Fighting pure evil is not easy.
So true
I remember he was criticized for being the mastermind behind the lawsuit and "influenced" the outcome, in fact all he did was stay anonymous in funding the lawsuit. If knowing who fund a lawsuit could alter the verdict , I think something is definitely wrong with the judicial system of America.
Upper middle class, single digit millionaire hulk hogan... he hasn't been slammed this hard since Andre the giant turned on him.
Well, it was a few years back. Hope hulk hogan shook it off pretty quickly. I haven’t seen him endorsing any products on TV so I’m guessing he’s not broke yet.
Lol
If he piled frivolous lawsuits on them, then I could understand the "billionaire picking on the little guy" narrative. But this was apparently a valid lawsuit that resulted in a huge judgment against them.
Now if only he could go after TMZ next.
Jimmy Kimmel broke Gawker's legs. Peter Thiel was the one who came along to make the killshot and put them down for good.
This man manifested this for 10 years. Pure genius lol
They hit him; he hit back harder. They were guilty in court. Journalists are not immune from the law. I love this fantasy journalists have of themselves as the defenders of the innocent. Most are scum.
Journalists are important as Thiel pointed out. Him doing this for Hogan has nothing to do with "journalists being scum" or any other sidecar issue you're on about. You're just as bad as the others who hate thiel and therefore think what he did was wrong on that basis alone.
From the actual observation of the " Tape " it was obvious to me that the intent of the tape was for monetary gain in the manner of Kim Kardashian ' s exploit . As human behavior is governed by the law of " unintended consequences " , Hulk Hogan succeeded beyond his wildest imagination .
Libra holds the balance scales
People are starting to connect the dots in their own situations
"freedom of the press" is another term for unaccountability. The Gawker lawsuit is the result of that impunity...
nick dentonberg btfo.
Came back here in 2022 to see what was the beginning of cancel culture
theil knows how to play his part! One of the smartest mind on the earth right now
Go back and watch the Jimmy Kimmel/Gawker Stalker video. One of the lawyers on the panel accurately predicted that someone would eventually walk away with a huge payoff from Gawker.
Next Go after TMZ never seen so many disgusting excuses for humans in all my life
Did this dude just say a single digit millionaire couldn't afford court costs?
He said uhm about 25 times.
Only journalists think this is debatable. A disgusting organisation got screwed!
And now Elon is doing this with ADL. PayPal Mafia is undefeated
Well, tbh Gawker did try to kill him in Saudi Arabia
Well done Peter, well done.
It takes more than a millionaire to fight this, thats why Peter paid the fees. Peter didn't know Hulk personally he wanted to take down Gawker because of personal things they said about Peter being gay.
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He says there’s nothing wrong with being gay and gawker outing people is thus not doing anything wrong. ok. Well, sex is normal and there’s nothing wrong with it either, that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t expect privacy, just as gay people should also expect privacy.
"You know wealthy people shouldn't do that. I think if they try they won't succeed." -- Peter Thiel, the billionaire who backed Hulk Hogan's lawsuit bankrupting Gawker media 01:05 (Wall Street Journal. November 1, 2016)
Hail Peter thiel
I happen to agree with Peter Thiel on this.
Oh, and those poor "single digit millionaires"...
I don't think he was being flippant. He was underlining just how damned expensive and consequently how out of reach the legal process is for the huge bulk of citizens is. Even single digit millionaires.
With any luck you’ll be a single digit millionaire, too, considering that’s what it takes for most people to retire in the US. And even then people run out of money !! Usually medical problems or poor planning - add a lawsuit to it and Hulk Hogan would find himself bleeding cash. Anyway, I don’t think Thiel was being flippant either
Im not responsible for that one.
Over.
"Checks and balances',
smart guys love trump
Thiel: Gawker must go!
Also Thiel: You can't sensor white supremacists, free speech must always be unfettered
Thiel was seeking revenge because years earlier Gawker revealed he is gay and was getting married
That's certainly part of it
Those prominent people have been destroyed because they did wrong things in a position of power They needed to behave themselves
1:55 Does anyone else think his response to that question demonstrates that he is a terrible liar?
Conscious-Type Person lol yeah that wasn't very convincing was it...
Conscious-Type Person would you rather him be good at lying?
Not that I think he was lying....
AWE ... poor Millionaire Hulk Hogan who doesn't have "access" to our legal system!
WSJ you do your customers a great service by putting on Peter Thiel without pointing out his hate of both women and democracy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Views_on_democracy
democracy is worthy of hate. its a tyrannical system we have been spoon fed to believe over the past 100 years gives us freedom when it objectively doesnt
Democracy is Jewish and gay.
Hiding behind journalism and law. You hid behind hulk hogan and did it secretly what a piece of work