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> I have no evidence as to how Peter Thiel truly feels about privacy in general Thiel founded Palantir.

• kbenson 10y ago
  Which would have been a wonderful fact to include as supporting evidence, yet it was not. Like I said, I'm not defending Thiel, I'm condemning accusations without good evidence. I wouldn't have had anything to complain about if that was included.
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• NotSammyHagar 10y ago
  So to clarify for those not in the know, he does not care about people's privacy, and is happy to build companies that want to spy on your social activities, and sell the surveillance capability to the us govt.
  • MichaelBurge 10y ago
    Do you mean social media sites? People voluntarily give up that information to the public, so it could reasonably not be considered private. The sex tape would be considered private. Presumably he draws his line somewhere between those two extremes. Has he done anything inconsistent with the position "The paparazzi should not write scandalous articles about famous people"? For example, has he invested in companies similar to Gawker? If not, I don't see any real conflict in his position.
    • vertex-four 10y ago
      I think most people consider what they post on social media sites to be for their friends, not the public. Of course, under an American moral definition of privacy, if you tell something to one person ever, it's as public as if you bought billboards across the country. And if you're tricked into releasing something to the public, say by a company which fails to properly advise you when you attempt to share things with your friends but actually publish them to the wider Internet, you have no recourse, legal or moral.