{"id":42862,"date":"2016-08-15T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/peter-thiel-compares-his-outing-to-the-daily-beasts-attack-on-gay-olympians\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:20:36","slug":"peter-thiel-compares-his-outing-to-the-daily-beasts-attack-on-gay-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/peter-thiel-compares-his-outing-to-the-daily-beasts-attack-on-gay-olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel Compares His \u2018Outing\u2019 to The Daily Beast\u2019s Attack on Gay Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Peter Thiel Compares His \u2018Outing\u2019 to The Daily Beast\u2019s Attack on Gay Olympians<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thiel.jpeg?resize=600%2C337\" alt=\"Peter Thiel fascist\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thiel.jpeg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thiel.jpeg?resize=300%2C169 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thiel.jpeg?resize=150%2C84 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed published in today&rsquo;s <em>New York Times<\/em>, homocon venture capitalist Peter Thiel compared his &lsquo;outing&rsquo; by Gawker to that of Olympic athletes from anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> countries as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/08\/grindr-olympics\/\">perpetrated by Nico Hines and The Daily Beast<\/a> in a piece on Grindr at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel presumably wrote his article&nbsp;to coincide with the announcement that Gawker media will officially be put up for auction as a result of its&nbsp;legal battle with former wrestler Hulk Hogan over a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> tape which Gawker published without Hogan&rsquo;s consent. Gawker ended up losing in court&nbsp;to the tune of $140 million. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/gay-billionaire-peter-thiel-admits-bankrolling-hulk-hogans-case-gawker\/\">Thiel admitted to bankrolling Hogan&rsquo;s&nbsp;case<\/a>&nbsp;in an effort to bring down Gawker.<\/p>\n<h2>PREVIOUSLY:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/06\/gawker-files-bankruptcy-following\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Gawker Files for Bankruptcy Following $140 Million Hulk Hogan Lawsuit<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/16\/opinion\/peter-thiel-the-online-privacy-debate-wont-end-with-gawker.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;_r=0&amp;mtrref=www.nytimes.com&amp;assetType=opinion\">In his op-ed,<\/a> Thiel&nbsp;made mention of last week&rsquo;s post in&nbsp;The Daily Beast by Nico Hines that effectively outed <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Olympians at the Rio games who hail from anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> countries:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/EEib1cju.jpg?resize=243%2C243\" alt=\"grindr olympics\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/EEib1cju.jpg?w=256 256w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/EEib1cju.jpg?resize=195%2C195 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">Unfortunately, lurid interest in <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> life isn&rsquo;t a thing of the past. Last week, The Daily Beast published an article that effectively outed <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Olympic athletes, treating their sexuality as a curiosity for the sake of internet clicks. The article endangered the lives of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> from less tolerant countries, and a public outcry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/11\/a-note-from-the-editors.html\">led to its swift retraction<\/a>. While the article never should have been published, the editors&rsquo; prompt response shows how journalistic norms can improve, if the public demands it.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"673\" data-total-count=\"1618\">As an internet entrepreneur myself, I feel partly responsible for a world in which private information can be instantly broadcast to the whole planet. I also know what it feels like to have one&rsquo;s own privacy violated. In 2007, I was outed by the online gossip blog Gawker. It wasn&rsquo;t so many years ago, but it was a different time: Gay <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> had to navigate a world that wasn&rsquo;t always welcoming, and often faced difficult choices about how to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> safely and with dignity. In my case, Gawker decided to make those choices for me. I had begun coming out to people I knew, and I planned to continue on my own terms. Instead, Gawker violated my privacy and cashed in on it.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&rsquo;t feel good, but I knew it could have been much worse. What I experienced would be minor in comparison with the cruelties that could be inflicted by someone willing to exploit the internet without moral limits.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Thiel&rsquo;s comparison is that his life was never seemingly endangered by Gawker&rsquo;s reporting.&nbsp;The one part that Thiel does&nbsp;get right is that &ldquo;it could have been much worse&rdquo; for him. In fact, it was much worse for the Olympians who were outed by The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<p>In his op-ed, Thiel also defended his speech at the RNC, saying he wants Americans to focus on&nbsp;&ldquo;real problems instead of fighting fake culture wars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad that an arena full of Republicans stood up to applaud when I said I was proud to be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, because <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> pride shouldn&rsquo;t be a partisan issue. All people deserve respect, and nobody&rsquo;s sexuality should be made a public fixation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>RELATED:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/07\/peter-thiel-gay\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Peter Thiel Tells RNC He&rsquo;s &lsquo;Proud to Be Gay&rsquo;; GOP Platform Says That He Shouldn&rsquo;t Be<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Thiel adds that he is proud to have played a part in the downfall of Gawker:<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"220\" data-total-count=\"1838\">For my part, I am proud to have contributed financial support to his case. I will support him until his final victory &mdash; Gawker said it intends to appeal &mdash; and I would gladly support someone else in the same position.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"220\" data-total-count=\"1838\">A year before the Bollea decision, Gawker retracted an article that outed the chief financial officer of Cond&eacute; Nast. Gawker made the right decision by backing down, but I doubt the company would have done so without the pressure of Mr. Bollea&rsquo;s continuing defense of his own rights. Nick Denton, Gawker&rsquo;s founder and chief executive, used the occasion to defend the site&rsquo;s coverage of Mr. Bollea, but he also wrote that it&rsquo;s not enough for a story &ldquo;simply to be true.&rdquo; He was right about that: A story that violates privacy and serves no public interest should never be published.<\/p>\n<p>For the unfamiliar, the brouhaha between Thiel&nbsp;and Gawker dates back to&nbsp;a 2007 post that named Thiel as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.&nbsp;That post was seemingly intended to underscore&nbsp;the latent homophobia lurking within the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>Titled&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/335894\/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people\">&ldquo;Peter Thiel is totally gay, people&rdquo;<\/a>,&nbsp;the article asserted,<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Venture capital is a business about risk &mdash; but only the right kinds of risk. Unproven technology? Fine. A host of rivals? No problem. A <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> founder? Oh, hey, wait a second. Not that there&rsquo;s anything wrong with that. But someone else, somewhere else, might take issue with it. That&rsquo;s VC thinking.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, Thiel viewed the post as an attack&nbsp;and went about seeking&nbsp;revenge on&nbsp;Gawker and its founder,&nbsp;Nick Denton&ndash;who also happens to be&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about details of the Gawker media auction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/8\/15\/12482672\/gawker-bankruptcy-auction-questions-answers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/08\/peter-thiel-daily-beast\/\">Peter Thiel Compares His &lsquo;Outing&rsquo; to The Daily Beast&rsquo;s Attack on Gay Olympians<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vlaApmmczM4:afPpaZbnMSU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vlaApmmczM4:afPpaZbnMSU:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vlaApmmczM4:afPpaZbnMSU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vlaApmmczM4:afPpaZbnMSU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=vlaApmmczM4:afPpaZbnMSU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vlaApmmczM4:afPpaZbnMSU:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vlaApmmczM4:afPpaZbnMSU:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/vlaApmmczM4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/vlaApmmczM4\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/vlaApmmczM4\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Thiel Compares His \u2018Outing\u2019 to The Daily Beast\u2019s Attack on Gay Olympians In an op-ed published in today&rsquo;s New York Times, homocon venture capitalist Peter Thiel compared his &lsquo;outing&rsquo; by Gawker to that of Olympic athletes from anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> countries as perpetrated by Nico Hines and The Daily Beast in a piece on Grindr at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/peter-thiel-compares-his-outing-to-the-daily-beasts-attack-on-gay-olympians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Thiel Compares His \u2018Outing\u2019 to The Daily Beast\u2019s Attack on Gay Olympians<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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