Any defense of Gawker falls on deaf ears to most of Silicon Valley. It doesn’t matter how much incredible work they have done, they will point, hysterically, to a handful of articles that they believe cross their line. They will misconstrue the intentions of Gawker as literal ‘evil’ while they take the intentions of Zuckerberg at his word. (How many thousands of people have been outed on Facebook or bullied to the point of self destruction?)

It’s fine to disagree with Gawker. They certainly have screwed up sometimes, but there’s a reason we made freedom of the press, the first amendment. Why can’t Silicon Valley counter speech with speech? Why do you need to use a proxy lawsuit? Many legal experts predict that Gawker will win the Hulk Hogan case on appeal but it won’t even matter because fighting the lawsuit took so much money that it bankrupted the company. This is Silicon Valley justice?