What I'm saying is that at some point, someone's behavior will become toxic to "your group" (not the whole US - here, the "tech community" however you want to define that) and then they get asked to leave.
This is actually the mature thing to do, to part ways, as opposed to escalating conflict where the same thing happens in the end but the participants are left bloodied and hurting after the in-fighting.
At some point, if a person is supporting values that are antithetical to your culture, then you're going to ask them to leave. This may or may not be that time for Thiel.
My main concern is a Superfish-like situation where a user takes their laptop outside the corp LAN and gets owned because the root cert is vulnerable. Knowing the vendor of the whole system might be enlightening; I'm not sure.
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