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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: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Friday February 16 2018, @06:57PM (1 child)
The California Democrats are basically owned by Feinstein, and while she has a few good points, I normally think of her as a Republican in masquerade. And Feinstein is owned by Hollywood.
Also, about as many famous actors are "liberal" as are "conservative". So there's no problem with finding mouthpieces for either party. And Feinstein can justify many of her positions as "supporting local industries", though she's rarely that explicit. She usually either doesn't say why she's taken a position or lies about it, or even lies about what her position is. (Well, at least whoever responds to messages to her lies about what her position is. I was told she was considering her position about something after she's voted on it in committee.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @11:18PM
Wrongo. Di Fi is a pure Willie Brown Machine democrat and has been since her days on the SF Board of Supes. Her only position, like all good machine politicians, is an outstretched palm. Rumor has it her childhood hero was Chicago's Dick "Da Boss" Daley.