How in the world did the court come up with a $140M sum for the settlement? This seems so excessive, it is actually comical. Obviously, everyone has beleaguered this point, but I feel obligated to state it one more time: Scumbaggery and poor taste shock journalism are pretty shitty, but fuck Peter Theil if he thinks setting a precedent like this is net good for anything other than his petty vendetta.

edit: Yes, Gawker and Valleywag are pretty shitty. They probably have cause 140M worth of damage, just not to Hulk Hogan. Also, setting this precedent is so fucking dangerous that to argue that you don't like them and they deserve it is so infantile that if we accepted such arguments we would have shed nearly all of the rights afforded to us bu the U.S. Constitution.

Also. This has nothing to do with left v. right.