Re:Ask HN: Why are billionaires not giving more money away?
by ng12 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @06:45PM
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I'd agree with you that a legal system driven by the individual wealth of the parties involved is corrosive to modern society. I don't see how you can claim that Thiel's actions are, barring some internal bias against him or wealth people as a whole.
Outing Thiel as gay is legal. Thiel funding Hogan is legal. The only party here who fucked up is Gawker by flagrantly skirting the law.
Re:Ask HN: Why are billionaires not giving more money away?
by CodeKommissar on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:24AM
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> they outed him as gay (completely legal)
Lol, I don't know about this.
If I were a pretty public outlet media and said to everyone "Hey! foobarchu is gay/tranny/whatever" (without your consent) and that affected your personal life, relationships with other people, etc. Wouldn't you think that is illegal? Or at least it should be in my opinion.
The issue is that Thiel had no direct connection to that incident. The issue is that he funded everything because they outed him as gay (completely legal), with the express goal of bankrupting them via lawsuit. He didn't want them to learn a lesson, he wanted to fucking end them.
While he didn't do anything illegal, I think it absolutely counts as eroding modern society.