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Most comments here seem to hate Peter Thiel, but when it comes to Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page (all whom seem to be in bed with governments since
by 0x27081990 10y ago
Most comments here seem to hate Peter Thiel, but when it comes to Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page (all whom seem to be in bed with governments since a long time and worked with Hillary Clinton's campaign staff), well there's nothing wrong there because democrats are the good guys, right?
What would you do in their place? They don't make the rules. Government does, and you vote for government. So don't try to blame them.
IBM, Microsoft and RedHat main clients are the US Government. You think they don't have backdoors? What about Google and Facebook?
For the record, I'm not even American so don't start calling me whatever you call Trump supporters. I'm libertarian.
- ionised 10y agoNo, all of those people are vile in their own ways.
- throwaway2048 10y agoMultiple people can be bad for reasons entirely their own, "but shes doing it TOOOOOOO" is the reasoning and defense of a child.
- holydude 10y agoWhere did he imply he was defending it ? He was just pointing out that Peter Thiel gets all the hate while Zuck and the others are praised as technology innovators and saviors of humanity.
- throwaway2048 10y agohardly, all the people he named get critisized constantly, here especially.
- 0x27081990 10y agoWait to see 2020 when everybody here will be on Zuckerberg For President's train
- 0x27081990 10y agoBashing someone who's more succesful than you is what grown-ups do. Right?
- humanrebar 10y agoThe underlying point is that this isn't a discussion about privacy or government overreach but a focal point for anger with Thiel for his support of Trump. In that case, points about mechanisms, rules, oversight bodies, constitutional amendments, etc. are all off-topic (and, indeed, we're not discussing those things).
- Chris2048 10y agoYou could have said the first part of the sentence, without the mockery and insult of the second part.
- throwaway2048 10y agoPeople that make such transparently bad faith arguements need to be called out for what they are.
- Chris2048 10y agoThe first part adequately 'called out' the argument. If by 'need to be called out' you mean be uncivil, you are wrong - this isn't needed, and is explicitly disallowed on HN.