He bankrolled the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker as revenge because they reported on him being gay. The judgement forced gawker into bankruptcy where it was scooped up by private equity. The new managers gutted the place and forced the writers and editors to publish clickbait garbage instead of doing journalism.
That’s why Gizmodo looks nothing like what you remember.
Unless you're asserting that you're the government?
I’m not even making an argument, I’m explaining to you what your parent comment (which you also chose to interpret in bad faith) was saying.
No one is out to get you. Chill. You’re taking everything out of proportion.
Are you incapable of separating legality from rightness? You don’t have to e.g. believe that cutting in line should be illegal to also believe it’s not a nice thing to do.