"Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake (2017)"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-stake/peter-thie...

He’s still on the board and is a friend of Zuck.

If it is a project of Peter Thiel, I would hope that would finally wake everyone up to how bad faith calling himself a libertarian is.

Just consider the HUGE conflict of interest if an Facebook board member, and Trump inner circle confidant, had any input into this process.

where is the conflict? facebook is an america company so the president would be acting in the interest of an american company

The conflict is the presidents advisor sitting on the board of the company most likely to benefit from the ban.

I disagree. This would prove why big government is dangerous. This is the perfect example of how powerful individuals can leverage governmental power to enrich themselves. He's like Trump, pointing out all these problems while exploiting them to the max.

So you're letting him off the hook for hypocrisy? There's lots of other libertarians and non-libertarians playing by the rules and not benefitting from crony capitalism. Are you excusing Thiel for being a total hypocrite (e.g. making his money from government contracts) all the while telling everyone else to be a rugged individualist?

Are we supposed to admire looting the government as a kind of 5 dimensional chess, where the profiteers weren't actually grifters, but merely trying to make a philosophical point?

You know in security research, there are white hats, who find the exploits, notify about them, and are rewarded with recognition and sometimes bounties.

And there are black hats who use the exploits to pillage. These people don't get credit for 'raising awareness'

And in my view, Palantir is not a white hat libertarian exercise demonstrating how crony capitalism is bad and how we need smaller government.