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edit - kind of curious why this was flagged and removed?
Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
Illiberal authoritarian monarchy is Thiel’s favorite form of government, so I’m not sure what his problem is with being outed while in Saudi Arabia.
Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him This is being very economical with the facts. Gawker outed Thiel as gay against his wishes. And while the guy was in Saudi Arabia. Then they published a revenge porn tape of Hulk Hogan, which is what Thiel used to get them.
Illiberal authoritarian monarchy is Thiel’s favorite form of government, so I’m not sure what his problem is with being outed while in Saudi Arabia.
Bad people can do good things.
Evaluate the things, you may do so being aware of their provenance, but if you use that as the starting point of your conclusion then you are just asking for your biases to be confirmed.
There does need to be a higher form of journalistic accountability. If Thiel, or any other person on the planet, proposed a fair mechanism that was free from influence, I would support it.
For this I don't neet to know who is behind it, I need to know what its goals are, how it operates, and how does it maintain integrity.
Certainly coming from an odius person increases the chance it will not measure up, but for fucks sake, at least do the measuring.
Didn't he move to that place where nazis went ?
Didn't he move to that place where nazis went ?
Summary:
- first publisher said: you can't publish this b/c you could go to prison and we could get in trouble financially
- second publisher: you are going to publish this. If you go to prison, we will support your family financially for the entire time you are in prison. If you lose your house, we will buy them a new house.
You can read about it here: https://tim.blog/2021/06/30/michael-pollan-this-is-your-mind...
People talk a LOT about defending free speech but this story has always stuck out to me as what that really means.
What a silly little venture. Essentially a vanity publication for rich fools with thin skin. Though very amusing how completely it fell apart at the slightest prodding by this reporter. edit - kind of curious why this was flagged and removed?