I know it's been brought up before, but again, I would love to know the mental gymnastics Peter Thiel has done to rationalize backing this. The same Peter Thiel that sued Gawker for violating his privacy.
Nothing special. Cognitive dissonance is alive and well in the filthy-rich through to the dirt-poor. As we can see - your level of personal agency will be the determining factor in how much the world suffers from it.
Unfortunately we silo our processes in virtual-mental-machines at the expense of good ideas cross-pollinating terrible ones.
More generally, Peter Thiel is not a good person.
>>In addition to Mr. Ton-That, Clearview was founded by Richard Schwartz — who was an aide to Rudolph W. Giuliani when he was mayor of New York — and backed financially by Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist behind Facebook and Palantir.
He's a good model for the future of AI, where superintelligence's goals conflicts with basic human values.
He'll donate $10 Million to EFF and get a badge.
You freely put photos of yourself on the internet and they use them. Don't like it, don't publish it. This is 95% of what's going on here.
Gawker took private information on Peter Thiel that he did not want public, and had not made public.
Hulk Hogan was worse - "at trial he claimed that the videotaping was without his knowledge or consent"
I think it's great a company is doing this openly. Do you think the TLA aren't? We also know private Russian companies have been doing this for years. This is a good move towards privacy.
Apropos of that, courts have long held that billionaires have reduced rights to privacy due to their “overwhelming influence on public affairs and events”.
That’s why Thiel backed Hogan’s lawsuit (and to my mind, interfered unfairly), and was not able to sue Gawker.