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What is it that Peter Thiel said previously about women voting? What did he do to Gawker?
by throwaway5752 9y ago
What is it that Peter Thiel said previously about women voting? What did he do to Gawker?
- rpmcmurphy 9y agoJust a friendly reminder, Gawker did not out Thiel. He had a public profile on Friendster that clearly described him as interested in men. Gawker's editor at the time remarked that people like him thought the web was this super ultra secret bat cave, and that if you posted something there it wasn't really public.
- refurb 9y agoYou see no difference between someone sharing something on a social platform versus having that information plastered across the nation?
- moonka 9y agoSocial platforms are largely ways for people to plaster information across the nation. Just look at how Twitter is used these days.
- hateduser2 9y agoYou admit in your own writing that this is a new way to use twitter. And this wasn't twitter anyways. Most social media platforms have support for blasting things across the nation and support for more private info. You'd have to be insane to actually argue (and it seems thats what you're doing) that Peter Thiel was trying to tell the nation he was gay.
- moonka 9y ago>You'd have to be insane to actually argue (and it seems thats what you're doing) I think it's unlikely we'll be able to have a productive conversation. Have a good day!
- hateduser2 9y agoI don't see why not
- grandpoobah 9y agoyou insane-shamed ze
- salvar 9y agoCareful with that edge there.
- filoleg 9y agoIs doxxing people using information (publicly) available online ok then? Because that's what it really is, but worse, since the doxxing entity in question is a big media publication
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoIf I post on my Facebook that I am married, I don't consider it doxxing if someone else posts about that. Social media should be considered social and public.
- axau 9y agoDoes it matter? Do you think we should blacklist people if they allegedly hold or have at some point allegedly held unfashionable opinions? What a horrible precedent.
- jonathankoren 9y agoAnyone can have "unfashionable" opinions. It's just that they can't also dictate how other people react to those opinions. There's nothing more libertarian than holding people accountable by exercising free association, or in this case, freedom to not associate.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoDo you think it's good for a democracy if someone's career is limited by their political beliefs? Keep in mind too, these aren't fringe political beliefs. It's generally accepted in non-western countries that men and women are different, for example, yet somehow that's a fireable offense here.
- jonathankoren 9y agoThe unemployed get to vote.
- betenoire 9y agoWell, it kinda delegitimizes their complaint about other peoples' thoughts and ideas.
- dominotw 9y ago> What is it that Peter Thiel said previously about women voting? Respect for capitalism declined rapidly in the US after women gained the vote.
- ahakki 9y agoWhat’s your point?
- blattimwind 9y agoNone, he answered the (presumably?) rhetorical question.
- ahakki 9y agoThe comment was unclear whether “Respect for capitalism declined rapidly in the US after women gained the vote.” is a direct or indirect quote of Peter Thiel, or not a quote at all.
- pjscott 9y agoTo clarify, it's an accurate summary of Thiel's views as expressed in this 2009 essay: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
- Fins 9y agoGawker was found (not over Thiel's outing, but anyway) guilty by the court. It might be a sad state of affairs that you need to have Thiel's kind of money to take down a gossip rag like Gawker, but... good riddance.