Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by TimPC on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:24PM
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To put the quote in context it was in an essay that addressed people leaving countries through seasteading. So I think it's pretty much in evidence his view is not to deny people the right to vote, but to allow departure from societies one radically disagrees with for new ones.
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Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by Analemma_ on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:29PM
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And would women have the right to vote in this hypothetical new society he forms? Secession doesn't solve Thiel's problem, or the problems people have with him.
There is a big difference between saying a negative comment consequence of X is Y and therefore consider Z. And saying X was wrong therefore revoke X. X had a negative consequence does not even mean that he thinks X was net negative never mind that he thinks X should be revoked.