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> The 0.1% can fund a lawsuit because you published a sex tape.

The point of the article is that the .01% can fund a series of unrelated lawsuits because you publish an article unflattering of their industry, political stance, ideology, or just stating that cats or better than dogs.

For the 300 it's a trivial amount of money. Like us spending $1000 to shut down a web site we didn't like. (using them to us as 1,000,000,000 : 10,000,000 = 100,000 : 1,000)

My points are that first, this is both really scary because of how relatively few people are in this position and second, we've gone too far: there's no longer any way to stop these people from essentially doing anything they want to control us. They've become effectively gods who will allow us to live out our insignificant lives only if we don't annoy them.

-- Edit (to continue the metaphor cuz fun). --

Remember, the infraction wasn't posting the video on Gawker. The infraction that pissed of this god was being outed as gay. Essentially, this god was angered by being outed. He opened up a portal to our world via the Hulk Hogan video. His lightning bolts were the series of lawsuits he had lined up.

It's also worth noting that this is a god doing battle with a demi-god. Could you imagine the trivial amount of power (= money) (= free speech) that he would need expended to take out one of us antlike mortals.

If you could shut down breitbart or the drudge report (or your least favorite liberal sites) you wouldn't because you're a benevolent god. But then one day you wake up and find that they've passed judgement on you. Well, they can't pass judgement on a god. So you wave your hand and take them out without so much as making the most minor impact in your existence. "I'll show those mortals how judgement is passed! Talk bad about me, will they." That's the real issue here.