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

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

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Post by phaus »

thecleaner wrote: post #86
phaus wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter Theil's actions are pretty questionable without your incredible attempts to paint gawker as anything besides a trashy, disingenuous tabloid. I've heard other parts of the company were decent but their bread and butter was the trashy stuff. He can still be wrong to have funded their destruction even if they suck too.

And what about Palantir and its spy software ? Guy also supported Trump. Seems to be nothing but cashing in on the nationalism wave.

People need to stop thinking everything is about picking between 2 teams. Its quite possible to dislike Theil and Gawker at the same time. Its also possible to like some things that each does while disliking other things that they do.

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

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Post by Nasrudith »

ailideex wrote: post #65
Nasrudith wrote: post #46

Really Thiel's frankly fascistic rhetoric is far more treasonous than even the absurd worst case of "Google gave access to literally all of their technical data to gain market entry". And here he is calling for abusing power to stifle dissent for exercising their rights of who they work with. What they and the nationalist bedwetter coalition forget is that the Military serves the Civilians. Not the other way around.…

> Really Thiel's frankly fascistic rhetoric is far more treasonous How so?

The whole point of democracy is to be ruled by the people. Calling for those who dissent to be cudgeled with serious crimes is essentially a threat Part of the nominal democracy to dictatorship transition involves restricting dissent through abuse of power - like aggressive libel laws to jail those who state inconvenient truths.

That sort of "step toward usurpation" is far more worthy of the label even if it doesn't fit the deliberately narrow formal legal definition.

Compared to exercising their right of who to work for and dealing with perfectly legal partners?

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

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Post by vackosar »

phaus wrote: post #67
telltruth wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thiel has switched his allegiance to New Zealand from USA so I don’t understand his talks of treason. He is founder of Plantir which has mission for spying on American citizens and using tech for military without any concerns to ethics whatsoever. This is a guy who bankrupted journalist news media because they dared to publish about him. I am not sure how far Thiel can go to establish himself as one true tech villain…

Peter Theil's actions are pretty questionable without your incredible attempts to paint gawker as anything besides a trashy, disingenuous tabloid. I've heard other parts of the company were decent but their bread and butter was the trashy stuff. He can still be wrong to have funded their destruction even if they suck too.

So if we wanted to stop the trashy stuff part, how he should have proceeded?
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