Oh Gawker...this tweet is a matter of legit history now. https://t.co/SdYuQqiAp9
— Wizard Of Cause (@wizardofcause) August 18, 2016
Gawker was this walking attitude problem my least restrictive platform ever. The world needs places like that. https://t.co/HPESKAQpLg
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) August 18, 2016
Sorry to say this but Thiel's and (unfortunately) Nick's protestations to the contrary, seems clear that yes .. Thiel destroyed Gawker.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 18, 2016
I'm so sad and angry right now. Every news org should mourn gawker's loss and worry about being next.
— Dan Kois (@dankois) August 18, 2016
Gawker isn't closing bc of a sextape or bad choices, but bc of a vindictive billionaire. That's bad news for everyone. Except billionaires.
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) August 18, 2016
Peter Thiel has successfully created a blueprint for billionaires to destroy any news org they don’t like. Awful. https://t.co/5vwYov7aiK
— Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) August 18, 2016
Thiel is about to watch Gawker's diaspora of reporters seed their loathing of him into every outlet they work for https://t.co/NImnDPAHRh
— Andy Greenberg (@a_greenberg) August 18, 2016
RIP Gawker, which changed the way that people wrote on the Internet, for the better. https://t.co/bfmaRpowUV
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 18, 2016
A billionaire drove a press organization that displeased him out of business. The oligarchy has triumphed https://t.co/DmeN7iPxXV
— Laura Miller (@magiciansbook) August 18, 2016
Gawker was worth more to society than anything any of its enemies had ever done or will ever do combined. https://t.co/ERZxFzR0Hu
— Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) August 18, 2016
If you are not actually Hulk Hogan, and you’re gloating about a billionaire using lawfare to shut down a news site, god help you.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 18, 2016
"Gawker is no more. I’m sorry to hear that, not because I’m a huge Gawker fan, but because Peter Thiel is not a person whose integrity I trust. But they were influential in their time, both in the good and bad sense, and did some very good stuff over the years."--Nancy Nall
and he thinks there hasn't been enough gnashing of teeth:
Journalists should be very upset about the death of Gawker, and how it went down. We don't seem to be, and that's bad.
— Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) August 18, 2016
But there is also celebration
Seeing a lot of people talking about how great Gawker was. What? It was a cesspool.
— Brad Glasgow (@Brad_Glasgow) August 18, 2016
HUMILIATION: Gawker bought out by a site with a fraction of its audience. https://t.co/ob2FdpsQnG
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 17, 2016
It's time to find our own Peter Thiel and Gawker the hell out of @Twitter. #FreeMilo #Verify63red #tcot #conservatives
— 63red (@63red) August 6, 2016
Literally every single person tweeting their support for Gawker and screeching about "vindictive billionaires" is a bourgeois journalist.
— Louis Le Vau (@LouisLeVau) August 18, 2016
Last but not least, Hulk Hogan, weighs in:
They messed with the wrong guy brother HH
— Hulk Hogan (@HulkHogan) August 18, 2016
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Peter Thiel maintains his lawsuit against Gawker, which led to its bankruptcy, was about online privacy, not a vendetta.
Peter Thiel defended his vendetta against @Gawker in an @nytimes op-ed, leaving many journalists skeptical. https://t.co/pT8i3Mlp47
— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) August 16, 2016
#TcoT THIEL MUSES ON GAWKER, ONLINE PRIVACY...: THIEL MUSES ON GAWKER, ONLINE PRIVACY...(Third column, 2nd st... https://t.co/i5haMyP9eV
— ☢ Sarah №1 (@Sarahbelle_1) August 16, 2016
