"I am still really puzzled over exactly why Peter Thiel so so hated." Honestly, it's because he's a jackass. Don't forget his absurdly libertarian stances rega

"I am still really puzzled over exactly why Peter Thiel so so hated." Honestly, it's because he's a jackass. Don't forget his absurdly libertarian stances regarding regulation, to the point where he funded studies that completely ignored the ethics/regulations around human medical testing. He's also espoused the views that women being allowed to vote is a bad thing, and that people like him should just run the place as a cabal. "So that leaves one final option: The reason that people hate Thiel is because he made enemies in the Liberal press, they smeared him relentlessly and people internalized this without doing their own independent thinking or research." No. Assuming that people don't agree with what you think simply because they haven't "done the research" is extremely uncivil. I have done the research, and I think he's a jackass. "I feel the tech industry is now a worse, less free place when demonization of this type has become so endemic." The only way you could think that is if you don't feel the rest of us have the right to express our opinions.