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Thiel believes that out-of-control political correctness and character shaming will ultimately degrade the quality of rational discussion and debate in this country.

Seeing as Gawker represents so much of that nonsense, I'd say good on him for putting his money where his mouth is.

How many times is this going to be posted? Good for Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan.
If Venture Capital is needed to properly fill a lawsuit and increase the chances of winning, the bigger news isn't that the justice system is behaving like a market?
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11769763

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621

Yes, two major discussion, and dozens of submissions that have been killed.

Flag this post, it'll get dead'd off the front page soon enough.
Are the comments here of less value than the ones on those submissions that already have more discussion? Maybe you think they are, maybe I think they are, but who are we to decide?