Thiel is also apparently financing Shiva Ayyadurai's lawsuit against Gawker. He is the guy who claims to have invented email as a 14 year old. Both Techdirt[1] and Gawker[2] wrote about his nonsense claims, but Shiva and Thiel are suing Gawker.

The sex tape is a little more black and white as a moral argument, but i'd love to hear justifications for defending a man who is clearly so full of shit in a case that with Thiel's support he'll likely win.

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/05/12/gawker-lawsuit-shiva-ayyadurai...

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=shiva+ayyadurai

[2] http://gizmodo.com/5888702/corruption-lies-and-death-threats...