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Libertarian wisdom holds that “the answer to bad speech is more speech,”
but if you’re a Peter Thiel libertarian (that is, the kind of “freedom
lover” who doesn’t think women should vote, wants to spy on everyone in the world, and secretly wields power to censor the free press), then “the answer to bad speech is secretly backing lawsuits by washed-up pro-wrestlers in order to kill a media outlet whose reporting you don’t like.”

But Thiel’s principled, libertarian commitment to free speech just keeps
on giving: now, he’s submitted a bid to buy the distressed assets of
Gawker, primarily the archives of its reporting, which would let him
flush all their negative stories about him down the memory hole.

A crowdfunded bid to put the Gawker archives under control of former staffers collapsed last week.

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/14/down-the-memory-hole.html