Jan 14 2008
The real face of facebook?
This from today’s Guardian:
“Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site…
Although the project was initially conceived by media cover star Mark Zuckerberg, the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel
Thiel is a member of TheVanguard.Org, an internet-based neoconservative pressure group…an online community of Americans “who believe in conservative values, the free market and limited government as the best means to bring hope and ever-increasing opportunity to everyone, especially the poorest among us.” Their aim is to promote policies that will “reshape America and the globe“. Guardian
So the guy who bankrolled Facebook is a neocon activist. That in itself doesn’t brand Facebook as a right wing plot. If Facebook does turn out to be a front for some hidden neocon agenda I would have to admit that those neocons are a lot smarter than I ever imagined.
