Which is partially my point -- Thiel's "principle" was that less wealthy people don't have the same access, so he ponied up some of his billions of dollars to hire a lawyer that famously sues independent journalists and other non-wealthy people. Even in the Gawker case, he didn't limit his suit to Gawker, but he also sued the $60k/yr journalists writing for the site.
I guess one way to prove your point about lack of access to the legal system for average people is to be an astounding hypocrite and sue some of those people, but I don't feel like that's the common legacy of that whole episode.
Yeah, my disagreement was fairly narrow; I'm not endorsing the morality of Thiel’s or Harder’s behavior, only saying that it doesn't seem to obviously conflict with Thiel’s description of the legal representation of mere millionaires.
I guess one way to prove your point about lack of access to the legal system for average people is to be an astounding hypocrite and sue some of those people, but I don't feel like that's the common legacy of that whole episode.
You can read Mike Masnick's opinions here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161103/11502935958/heres...