Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?

Post by CrystalLangUser » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:29 AM UTC

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> Free speech --> Sue a magazine Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from being held to account for your speech.

That's exactly what it means; it's freedom from being held to account by at least some groups. Which ones being a matter of debate.

Post by dx034 » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:36 AM UTC

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Yes but you can hire a lot of people with different skin color that all went to the same university, grew up in the same rich neighbourhood and will have no diversity of ideas. A group of people with one gender and color of skin from the same country (to be less US centric) will often have little diversity in their ideas. But just by making sure to have x% of non-white employees you won't necessarily reach that eithe…

You can still end up with a single way of thinking, but it’s less likely . Think of it as rolling D20s instead of D6s, where each number represents a given mode of thought.

Post by blfr » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 9:45 AM UTC

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Seems clear you are eluding to his endorsement and $1m contribution to the Trump campaign. We share different views - I am happy to disagree with you because I think Peter Thiel is to be commended for conducting business in line with his own philosophical & political views: this is perhaps the entire goal of business. From my perspective, he clearly sees the need for change in this world and works diligently to see t…

No, I'm pretty sure he's referring to the whole Gawker vs. Hulk Hogan trial thing, which was one of the biggest attacks on freedom of the press in recent history. Whether you believe Gawker deserved it or not, he used Terry Bollea (Hogan) as a prop to push his own agenda.

Post by whatyoucantsay » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 10:05 AM UTC

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> the "dangers" of multiculturalism, gender and ethnic diversity I don't know if "dangers" is your word or his, but it's been shown (a priori and a posteriori) that multiculturalism and ethnic diversity erodes trust and causes social strive. This is opposed to cultural pluralism, where a dominant culture exists and tolerates additional values that don't erode or threaten the dominant culture. The reason I comment is…

The absolute irony of a post on an account whose handle is "facts are sacred" that just declares that "multiculturalism and ethnic diversity erodes trust and causes social strive" without providing any form of justification, proof, actual study about the subject, without thinking about the pre-existing bias that might exist in society to make that all of that difficult on a daily basis. Weak sauce.

Post by lhnz » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 10:11 AM UTC

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I think we've seen Thiel do this before, indirectly fund opposition to organizations he doesn't like when he can't attack them directly. He's also funded lots of politicians that work quite hard to restrict rights at every level of government, including, frankly, that are rather adamantly against equal rights for gay people. He's a great representation that some people will align themselves with anyone to further the…

  > He's also funded lots of politicians that work quite
  > hard to restrict rights at every level of government,
  > including, frankly, that are rather adamantly against
  > equal rights for gay people.