"Hulk Hogan's retirement will be comfortable," Gawker founder NIck Denton said in a blog post Wednesday. "We were confident the appeals court would reduce or eliminate the runaway Florida judgment against Gawker, the writer of the Hogan story and myself personally," Denton wrote. "As the most unpalatable part of the deal, three true stories — about Hulk Hogan, the claim by Shiva Ayyadurai that he invented email and the feud between the founders of Tinder — are being removed from the web." "If you're middle class, if you're upper-middle class [or] a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan you have no effective access to our legal system," Thiel said. "It's a shame the Hogan trial took place without the motives of the plaintiff's backer being known.

Source: CBC News November 02, 2016 18:56 UTC