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Gawker didn't go after the average person, they very specifically went after a billionaire, Peter Thiel.

Then after that, Hulk Hogan filed a lawsuit because he got caught saying super racist things against African Americans on tape and Thiel secretly funds that lawsuit.

Does this make Thiel, by extension, somewhat racist considering he clearly had no qualms funding this lawsuit?[1] He's also a well-known Trump supporter, go figure lol

Call me crazy, but this seems very counter to where Silicon Valley wants to be and Silicon Valley values.

He's also considered a pretty well-known VC in the area. It's not hard to figure out why SV has so many diversity problems, when you have people like Thiel hailed as their leader.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/03/hulk-hogan-sue...

[leroy_masochist]

> Hulk Hogan filed a lawsuit because he got caught saying super racist things against African Americans on tape

I thought the Hulkster sued because Gawker published a movie of him having sex with his friend's wife, filmed by his friend without Hogan's knowledge

[untog]

They're the same tape.

Whether Hogan sued primarily because of privacy invasion or because it's published evidence of him being racist is something only he can know, really.

[classicsnoot]

I am not from your tech utopia, but i get the feeling that your so called "values" are more to blame for the wealth disparity than any single actor, regardless of their net worth. Assuming you live in SV, you are the folks that moved there, get paid obscene money to wrangle 1s and 0s, drive up the property value, and demand changes to the community to suit your tastes. When you were boarding your chartered bus to get you safely to the Green Zone, did you think you were part of the solution? I can think of 1 famous conservative VC (not my world so there are presumably more) and maybe 2 companies that make some claim to be, or are labeled as, conservative. The vast majority of the SV tech crowd and companies are liberals, and your Bernie T-shirt doesn't make you an "ally". Be honest with yourself: SV companies generate spam email, dump tons of thermal excess into the environment, and gentrify neighborhoods. Acting like you are somehow a different breed, and not a parasitic community (i know that term seems negative or besmirching but i mean it in its purely biological form), is something no one else is falling for. I realize this is an emotional rant that brushes with broad strokes, but i am pretty tired of West Coast folks acting like everything was fine before Trump and conservatives are backwards racists incapable of espousing compassion or modernity. That isn't an excuse, it is an explanation.