"If Thiel and Nick Denton were just a couple of rich guys fighting over a 1st Amendment edge case, it..."

“If Thiel and Nick Denton were just a couple of rich guys fighting over a 1st Amendment edge case, it wouldn’t be very interesting. But Silicon Valley has unprecedented, monopolistic power over the future of journalism. So much power that its moral philosophy matters.”

- Nate Silver, via twitter

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/145503385697