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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @08:45PM (2 children)
They do, and it's extremely irritating to this LGBT AC, because the flip side of that coin is the stereotype that since I'm LGBT, I must be a D teamer.
For example, I like guns. I think guns are necessary for freedom.
I would rather be judged by the political positions I've come to as a rational being through long contemplation and the weighing of evidence. It's incidental that I'm found somewhere in the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ acronym; that's how I was born, not who I am.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Log Cabin Republican. I tend towards the Libertarian Party, but I consider all candidates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @12:12AM (1 child)
Radio/TV presenter Thom Hartmann is a D.
He is also a sport shooter.
He thinks that to have a gun, a USAian should (just as with cars and drivers)
1) have to periodically demonstrate proficiency with a firearm.
2) have to carry liability insurance.
and
3) All guns should have traceable registration and be tracked from the moment of manufacture to their ultimate destruction.
What do you think about that?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:39AM
Should be great for disarming poor people.
Why should one need to demonstrate proficiency, especially on a periodic basis? It's not like cars where health conditions can make them dangerous to others on the road every time they get behind the wheel. Sounds like a stealth means to punish people for not having the normie psychology or for rich people to throw roadblocks in the way of universal gun ownership.
Liability insurance just makes firearms more expensive. Sucks if you're a poor person who just wants a firearm for protecting yourself and nothing to a rich person who pays for armed bodyguards.
Because?