Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End With Gawker
Last week, The Daily Beast published an article that effectively outed gay Olympic athletes, treating their sexuality as a curiosity for the sake of internet clicks. The article endangered the lives of gay men from less tolerant countries
.. I had begun coming out to people I knew, and I planned to continue on my own terms. Instead, Gawker violated my privacy and cashed in on it.
.. Terry Bollea is better known as the wrestler Hulk Hogan ..
At first he simply requested that Gawker take down the video. But Gawker refused. It was getting millions of page views, and that was making money.