But if he looked beyond Gawker’s potential cost to him in dollars to the cost to society in total, the math changed. What are the potential risks to his partners and friends? To the global economy? What is the societal cost of the “Gawker jitters”? If the continued effect of Valleywag is that it makes Silicon Valley 1 percent less ambitious, what is that cost? If one suicide is prevented and that person could have been a great founder or could have had one great idea? For every dollar in revenue that Gawker makes, how much economic value is it destroying, for Peter and for other people?
