Still, I suspect if Thiel’s victory is truly unjust and contrary to what people want, it will not last long. Peter Thiel’s claim that destroying Gawker was “one of the most philanthropic” things he has ever done can be challenged (for what it’s worth, Dumas has the Count of Monte Cristo, as he sought his revenge, refer to himself as a “kind of philanthropist,” too), but what is indisputable is that he saw his actions as a kind of social good and there is something to be admired in that.
