Recently there's been a lot of interest in the question of whether billionaire investor Peter Thiel poses a threat to press freedom in the United States and, by extension, the larger project of American democracy. That interest has lately focused on Thiel's decision to finance a series of harassing lawsuits against Gawker Media, a company that angered him years ago by revealing to the world that h
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