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Who did Gawker blackmail?

[krackers]

Not blackmail, but outed Thiel

[crazypyro]

And seemingly created an enemy so powerful he destroyed their entire business.

[nullc]

Gawker was extremely and unrepentantly unethical. They destroyed themselves.

[simula67]

Gawker destroyed themselves

[philipov]

That's the joke. Sarcasm doesn't work well on the Internet.

[EGreg]

How did he do it

[crazypyro]

If you are seriously interested, Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit surrounding his sex tape and the resulting judgement forced Gawker to declare bankruptcy and end up selling for basically nothing.

[CalChris]

Outing is like revealing a trade secret. Once the trade secret is publicly known it is no longer a trade secret. However that reveal was on Thiel.