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Re:A Fellowship to FOIA the Crap Out of Peter Thiel by internaut on Friday September 16, 2016 @06:45PM (#12517922)
This looks somewhat like a bounty for dragging up dirt motivated by a dislike of somebody's politics.
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Re:A Fellowship to FOIA the Crap Out of Peter Thiel by pstuart on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:53PM (#12518869)
No, it's simply replaying the favor. He's a political operative through his investments and involvement with Palantir. He is fair game for this activity.

Here's another example of how he's engaged in manipulating political dialog: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/conservative-facebook-inves...

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Re:A Fellowship to FOIA the Crap Out of Peter Thiel by internaut on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:20PM (#12521377)
> political operative...fair game...engaged in manipulating political dialog

Fortunately for Thiel, being right wing is not illegal.

Terrifyingly, I suspect that he contains wrong views.

We can only hope you have the bravery to deal with this monster.

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Re:A Fellowship to FOIA the Crap Out of Peter Thiel by bhhaskin on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:00PM (#12518292)
Thats pretty much it. Its funny how a lot of the Tech community values personal privacy, but forget that people like Peter Thiel are private citizens too.
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Re:A Fellowship to FOIA the Crap Out of Peter Thiel by pstuart on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:37PM (#12518820)
Except these are FOIA requests regarding Palantir and (so far) are legitimate queries.
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