Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?
by _fizz_buzz_ on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:04AM
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Thiel calls himself a libertarian: "I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself “libertarian.” "
[1]: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?
by kyledrake on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:03PM
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> the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual
Ah yes, that core libertarian tenant they all believe in. Can't truly be a libertarian without refusing to accept your own mortality.
Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?
by vidarh on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:06AM
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Right wing libertarianism is ultimately founded not on a belief in liberty, but on a belief on maximum protection of your own property. The push for deregulation etc. is about minimizing government intrusion into what people do with their own property.
As such you'll often find right-libertarians holding weird views when harming liberty protects their own property rights.
Which thing made him a libertarian: the idea of using a government agency to break up a company, or the stump speech he did for the alt right nationalist?