I’m not disagreeing that Hogan wouldn’t have had the money to press for the nuclear option. But let’s say the nuclear option was pursued either due to the lawyers willing to go for the big pay day, or Hogan sold off his baseball card collection and had the money.
Again, we keep coming to “it was so bad because of the motive”. I want to remove the motive from the action. Would we as up in arms against Hulk Hogan if it was he alone wanting to destroy Gawker because of the leaked sex tape? The simple fact still remains that if Gawker hadn’t done what they did, Thiel or Hogan or anyone else couldn’t have sued them to oblivion.
