Thiel’s bankrolling of the Gawker suit wasn’t out of some sort of sense of social justice – it was a revenge play, pure and simple. He had it in for Gawker and found something he could latch onto to exact his revenge.
… and the thing is, Thiel has a history of doing this exact thing: bankrolling attacks on media outlets he feels wronged by.
(And I’m not defending Gawker here. What they did was irresponsible and wrong, and they deserved to get sued and lose.)
