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Re:Peter Thiel’s Origin Story by Barrin92 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @01:04AM (#28602174)
Among Silicon Valley workers maybe not but at least parts of his politics have significant sway on highly influential individuals in the valley itself. Here is, as one example, an interview with Noah Smith and Andreessen a few months ago with the latter pretty much ad verbatim taking Thiel's stanceo AI/crypto[1]. Thiel is highly influential among the the guys who have all the money, which matters quite a lot. It also is quite curious with how much stuff Thiel gets away with, like funding Republicans that basically have sworn to dismantle big tech while sitting on the board of Facebook advising Zuckerberg.

[1]https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-marc-andreessen-...

Re:Peter Thiel’s Origin Story by panarky on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:11AM (#28605810)
> like funding Republicans that basically have sworn to dismantle big tech

This isn't the contradiction it appears.

The WSJ found Thiel brokered a secret agreement with Trump to stop Facebook moderation of Repub disinfo in exchange for a tacit agreement not to take regulatory action against Facebook.

Source: https://archive.is/WYV6m

Re:Peter Thiel’s Origin Story by Barrin92 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:43PM (#28609028)
That is literally my point though, if that does not qualify him as a significant power broker in DC and the valley I'm not sure what does.