> I would not be so quick to celebrate. This case has demonstrated that one or two very powerful, wealthy individuals (Peter Thiel et al) are able to destroy a successful business and ruin the livlihoods of dozens merely because they were embarassed.

That's always been true anyway. On the bright side, this time it was all over the internet, so that's some kind of progress at least.

> (It's worth noting that what Gawker originally wrote about Thiel was also apparently true.)

In both cases the info Gawker published was really nobody's business but that of the people involved. They published it as shameful attempts to get page views and (possibly) just to be mean. So good riddance.