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Actually, Gawker and Denton are the assholes. When confronting assholes, it's easy to be mis-perceived as one.
by maratd 10y ago
Actually, Gawker and Denton are the assholes. When confronting assholes, it's easy to be mis-perceived as one.
- dopamean 10y agoYou say "actually" as if you're trying to correct me in some way...
- maratd 10y agoWere you talking about Thiel or Denton? It seems like you were talking about Thiel, so yes, I was correcting you.
- FireBeyond 10y agoThat's rather presumptuous of you. Denton being an asshole in no way precludes Thiel from being an asshole.
- maratd 10y agoIsn't it equally presumptuous of you to assume that he is? Your only source of evidence is his financing of an aggressive lawsuit against a known asshole and his company.
- FireBeyond 10y agoMaybe I think Thiel is an asshole because of his funding of Palantir?
- internaut 10y agoThiel's explanation is that it was better to sift through the data torrent more judiciously than collecting every particle of data on every man, women and child forever. That is relevant surveillance on a limited pool vs mass surveillance. Supposing a state to be malevolent, then an efficient malevolent state ought to be still less evil than an inefficient malevolent one. This was in the context of the sentiment after 9/11. Unfortunately it later turns out the government with its god-like power of 'infinite money' decided to do both at the same time, which explains his disgust at the NSA post-Snowden. Surely a giant database in the sky could never fall into enemy hands with data transfer and data medium densities growing exponentially. In the future, wars shall be lost because some dork left a usb drive on a train somewhere.