Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts

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Post by talentedcoin » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 2:35 AM UTC

Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts
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Post by steve19 » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:02 AM UTC

Thiel is on Facebook's board. So he is on the board of a Google competitor and a company with atrocious morals.

Maybe he is just trying to take the heat off Facebook and send Congress in a different direction.

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Post by darkpuma » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:06 AM UTC

steve19 wrote: post #2

Thiel is on Facebook's board. So he is on the board of a Google competitor and a company with atrocious morals. Maybe he is just trying to take the heat off Facebook and send Congress in a different direction.

I think both companies benefit from the other generally being shifty too, since it let's any discussion about one get derailed with "what about the other?"

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Post by thrwayxyz » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:08 AM UTC

I interviewed with him once.

Got on the short list by telling the recruiter that "Palantir is a bunch of really smart guys run by a Bond villain". Not sure if that ever got back, but not being thrown out of the process tells me a lot about the company.

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Post by wyldfire » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:12 AM UTC

The treasonous-ness seems like an exaggeration/distortion of [1].

> “The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military,” Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-google/googles-....

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Post by sieabahlpark » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:12 AM UTC

steve19 wrote: post #2

Thiel is on Facebook's board. So he is on the board of a Google competitor and a company with atrocious morals. Maybe he is just trying to take the heat off Facebook and send Congress in a different direction.

I think both should be investigated. They're just too big and with how they're so vehemently trying to get themselves on every page in the world with recaptcha v3 it doesn't spell well for our privacy.

They even changed their motto from don't be evil to "Do the right thing" which is pretty close to "the ends justifies the means" in nature.

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Post by temp1827 » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:14 AM UTC

I mean, he has a point. It's clear U.S. tech companies have become hugely susceptible to hiring foreign spies and the issue of foreign governments stealing IP is real. There was a very recent public case of Apple's autonomous driving unit stopping a Chinese engineer from leaving the country just as he was bound for China after detecting he had uploaded a bunch of code to a personal account. And most likely many more cases like that we've never heard of publicly.