Peter Thiel claims Zuck agreed to support State-sanctioned Conservatism

Link to the actual NYMag article and not the daily beast’s listicle:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-...

> Thiel (who did not comment for this article, which is adapted from my new biography, The Contrarian) is perhaps the most important influence in the world’s most influential industry. Other Silicon Valley personas may be better known to the general public, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and even a few who don’t regularly launch rockets into space. But Thiel is the Valley’s true idol — the single person whom tech’s young aspirants and millennial moguls most seek to flatter and to emulate, the cult leader of the cult of disruption.

Okay come on, is this really true? Whenever Thiel comes up there’s a pretty heavy consensus that his influence is bad and Palantir is a particularly evil company. I don’t think it’s true at all that tech folks idolize him as described here.

In high school, the San Francisco native was targeted for his “inscrutable and haughty” personality, the book says. “It’s obvious in retrospect that what we were doing was bullying,” one classmate said.“I’ve always thought he might have a list of people he’s going to kill somewhere and that I’m on it.”

I think so

Supporting state-sanctioned conservatism here means not censoring Trump's Facebook posts. Pity the headline editor that had to come up with this.