Article 3BRSZ Peter Thiel: the "libertarian" who loves mass government surveillance, monopolies, and censorship

Peter Thiel: the "libertarian" who loves mass government surveillance, monopolies, and censorship

by
Cory Doctorow
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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")

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