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Netflix's CEO offered to resign from Facebook's board in 2016, citing his fellow board member Peter Thiel's support of Donald Trump:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — who called his fellow board member Thiel's support of Trump "catastrophically bad judgment" in an email leaked to the Times — also offered to resign over his disagreement with Thiel, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday. Sources told WSJ that Facebook CEO Zuckerberg declined Hastings' offer to resign. Facebook declined to comment on the matter to Business Insider.
Now, Thiel may resign from Facebook's board instead in the midst of packing up and leaving the Bay area:
The founder of PayPal and a prominent investor in Silicon Valley, Thiel is reportedly moving his investment firms Thiel Capital and Thiel Foundation out of the Bay Area and into Los Angeles this year, according to WSJ.
In L.A., Thiel is also reportedly planning to build "a right-leaning media outlet to foster discussion and community around conservative topics." Thiel bankrolled the lawsuits that eventually forced Gawker Media into bankruptcy, and has been trying to buy Gawker's now-defunct flagship site.
Although Thiel has called Silicon Valley a "one-party state", in the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton beat President Trump 72 percent to 22 percent in Los Angeles County.
The Guardian also has an article about Thiel's involvement in New Zealand.
Also at Ars Technica, The Mercury News, LA Times, and Vanity Fair.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Friday February 16 2018, @05:15PM (4 children)
There's all that, but the reason why Thiel will burn in the lowest and hottest levels of Hell, is Palantir.
The rich don't suffer the same invasions of privacy that the poor do, and that fuckface believes he can suck up all information and create his "Eye of Horus". Evil fucker even named the technology after Sauron's (The epitome of all evil) intelligence gathering device.
The man doesn't deserve to breathe on this planet.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @06:55PM
Met one of the founders of Palantir, he swore up and down it wasn't about creepy surveillance like the name implied.
Supposedly he got out of that group when he realized that is exactly what it was all about. Seriously, so many techies just presume things will be above board while handing the keys of the kingdom to the snakes.
(Score: 4, Informative) by HiThere on Friday February 16 2018, @07:10PM
The Palantir was not created by Sauron, but rather by the Numenorians. They are the "seven stones" that were brought "over the flowing sea" from the sunken Numenor. They were created to link communications, but they had the defect that they were subject to what I can only call as neuroses and psychosis. A traumatic even could fix them in place. And they weren't all co-equal, only one of them had the ability to communicate with all of the others at once.
So the palantir were created for "good" and perverted by Sauron for evil.
OTOH, I put good in quotes, because the "good" that they were created for was centralized governmental control. But in the context of "The Lord of the Rings" centralized governmental control by the rightful king is defined (and depicted) as good. Nobody is supposed to consider that the ancestors of the rightful king were from a race so wicked that "God" decided to sink their continent, so what will their descendants be like.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @12:36AM (1 child)
You know that recent book featuring rumors about wild Silicon Valley sex parties? Supposedly, those stories mostly were about Peter Thiel. But no journalist or writer will actually attach Thiel's name to any of those stories, not after what happened to Gawker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:36AM
They could publish it anonymously. Send it to an amateur who can rewrite it to defeat stylometry. Then dump it somewhere.
Oh, they want to make a quick buck off of lurid Silicon Valley hearsay? Tough.
Rumor: Thiel is a gigantic misogynerd since he's both gay and libertarian.