The case against Gawker was won on its merits, and I’m not going to dismiss the result because the person funding the plaintiff lawyers was anonymous. It is frankly insane that what keeps people from winning privacy lawsuits is the amount of money required to prosecute, and that you guys seem to be advocating this bifurcation as a Good Thing.
Privacy is something that can be violated by entities other than The State; as I mentioned earlier, Gawker has violated the privacy of people who were not Hulk Hogan or Peter Thiel, under the thinnest of justifications, and it was basically only a matter of time until they were called to account for it.
