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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Peter Thiel's Revenge against Gawker Is Neither Justice nor Philanthropy Author: Jeet Heer Narrator: Derek Shetterly Format: Unabridged Length: 4 mins Language: English Release date: 06-01-16 Publisher: New Republic Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, News & Culture Publisher's Summary: Revelations that the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has been covertly pursuing a legal campaign to destroy Gawker Media has generated surprisingly little outrage outside of journalistic circles. Indeed, Thiel has even had defenders like Washington Post legal blogger Eugene Kontorovich, who argued that the billionaires behavior was no different than other third-party lawsuits launched by public interest groups like the ACLU and the NAACP. Given the fact that neither the ACLU nor the NAACP ever secretly finance lawsuits in the pursuit of a private vendetta, this seems a ridiculous comparison. "Peter Thiel's Revenge against Gawke