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by ferrari8608 3653 days ago
It's a shame your comment has fallen victim to the disagree button. While I disagree with you, which I'll get to in a moment, it greatly disappoints me how some of the supposed intellectual thinkers on this site would like to hide your comment because they disagree with it. I didn't find it to be spam or inflammatory, which is to my understanding the type of post the down arrow is supposed to be used for.

Anyway, what he did was legal. There's nothing to be held accountable for. Whether or not it's right or wrong in general is not really a topic I'm interested in. Since the legal process worked as it's supposed to, I believe this to be what you might call right though. Gawker has had this coming. If they hadn't made it so easy by publishing garbage, Theil would have been powerless.

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Is it legal to fund another parties court case, to influence their decisions (why did hogan drop insurance-covered issues?) and do so without knowledge of court? I am not sure those are clear answers - we shall see.
It's a shame that you think the down-vote button means something other than what it is used to mean.