Peter Thiel: the “libertarian” who loves mass government surveillance, monopolies, and censorship | Droolin Dog dot Net

Peter Thiel thinks that it was a mistake to let women vote; that democracy is incompatible with “freedom” (because poor people will tax rich people if they get to elect their own leaders); that the major problem with the mass government surveillance that Edward Snowden revealed was that it was incompetently conducted (which is why he started Palantir, a mass surveillance contractor that sells spying services to authoritarian states); that free markets are inefficient and should be replaced with monopolies; and that marketplace of ideas should be replaced by secretly funded litigation campaigns that eliminate publications that say things you don’t like. (more…) Source: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/27/moral-flexiblity.html Tags: *Headlines*, #Headlines, #TheNewz, random, #TopNews, #Trending

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