What Silicon Valley's billionaires don't understand about the first amendment | Nellie Bowles

Some in Silicon Valley have been threatening the 'uppity' press with rhetoric about journalists needing 'to be taught lessons'. That's not how it works

No major American cultural force is more opposed to examination and more active in suppressing it today than Silicon Valley. So when it was revealed this week that Facebook board member Peter Thiel had been secretly bankrolling a lawsuit to inflict financial ruin on the news and gossip site Gawker, Silicon Valley cheered.

The investor Vinod Khosla wrote on Twitter that the "press gets very uppity when challenged". And that these bad journalists need "to be taught lessons".