Thiel was a very confident individual who considered himself too smart to lose money. Rather than blame his loss of billions of dollars on his own bad ideas, he sought a scapegoat. Unfortunately for Thiel, suing a media company for calling him a homosexual would have gotten him nowhere. He could not sue for libel, since it's technically true that he is a homosexual. Peter Thiel defends his funding of Terry Bollea's legal action against Gawker, claiming that "a single digit millionaire" could not afford a proper legal offense against a large media company.
Clem brags that his litigation team has never lost a case, though nearly all of those cases feature "Bubba The Love Sponge" as a defendant. Clem was a defendant in a separate case involving the sex tape. Clem has a unique position in the sex tape scandal because he is not just an accomplice: he is also a victim. The sex tape itself was part of Clem's home security system.
Clem alleges that his former co-workers, Michael "Cowhead" Calta, and Matthew "Spice Boy" Lloyd, stole the recording and searched for a tabloid to sell it to. Journalists and media company executives — notably, former Gawker CEO Nick Denton — argue that litigating against media companies for publishing unsavory information about public figures has a "chilling effect" that will lead to censorship. Denton is correct, to a point. However, these laws only offer protection when the recorded act is illegal.
Had the recording in Bubba The Love Sponge Clem's house actually recorded a crime, Denton may have had a valid defense in court. Having sex with your best friend's wife is not illegal in Florida. Nick Denton does have a point about Peter Thiel's choice of action.
The act of funding Terry Bollea's lawsuit against Gawker appears to be part of a larger action to destroy Gawker by any means necessary, a textbook example of " the ends justifying the means ". Thiel has funded another lawsuit against Gawker: a defamation case filed for Shiva Ayyadurai.
Ayyadurai claims he invented email in not Ray Tomlinson in as consensus reality has it , and claims that Gawker's refuting of Ayyadurai's claim had hurt his reputation. Nominations and campaigning for the RationalWiki Moderator Election is underway and will end on November Jump to: navigation , search. The s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics.
Since , the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of " capitalist democracy " into an oxymoron.
While commendable, the credit would have phased out faster if Musk had founded a marque for an established automobile company, since the credit only applies to the first , vehicles sold by a company including all of its marques. Thiel's hatred for women is almost at Dr. Strangelove -level insanity. Ray Tomlinson is widely accepted as the actual inventor of email, having sent the first "user domain" message over the Internet in The PayPal Wars.
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One of his philanthropic works is the Thiel Foundation , which gives money to teenagers to start a tech company instead of going to college. Vitalik Buterin is one of the recipients of this grant. Peter Thiel with Blake Masters. Peter Thiel: Zero to One. The World According to Thiel. Peter Thiel. Overview Issues Contributors Activity.
Further reading. Documentaries, videos and podcasts. Timeline October 1, October 11, Peter Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main. Zero to One. News Title. David Sacks is tech's loudest fan of the Gavin Newsom recall. David Sacks is part of a small group of rich tech investors seeking to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The startup did not disclose the amount. Thiel-backed Block. Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies now accepts bitcoin for payments.
Data analytics firm Palantir now accepts bitcoin for payments. The company is also considering adding bitcoin to its balance sheet. Psychedelics giant Atai is going public. We pored over its page filing to find 5 key takeaways. Atai wants to use ibogaine, ketamine, and other psychedelic compounds as treatments for mental-health conditions.
Is it a Bitpanda, is it the first Austrian unicorn? Peter Thiel's 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success. Thiel says investors should pick the most successful businesses, which are monopolies as they combine proprietary technology with network effects, economies of scale and branding.
Slate Star Codex: Silicon valley's safe space. The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex.
Katie Warren and Mary Meisenzahl. The 10,square-foot waterfront property has two outdoor swimming pools and was featured on the season of "The Real World: Miami. Tech billionaire Peter Thiel hosted the mayor of Miami for lunch at his 10, square foot island estate last week. The product is a combination of software [
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