This was like the biggest tech drama of 2007, but mostly because Theil successfully ran the journalism company that reported it out of business.
Journalism has to be responsible.
This article is a clusterfuck, no pun intended.
There's a conservative christian billionaire who is actively funding political groups blocking this.
You, a journalist, working at a tabloid, finds out he's secretly gay. Sound like a story?
There's context to all of these things.
We all have different ones
But, like, Peter Thiel genuinely thinks life ought to be harder for gay people? He's a good Christian and thinks gay people will go to hell? I still don't really get it.
He's always worked on the law/capital/property side. The man can't code and has never claimed to be able to.
He's a deeply libertarian conservative christian who happens to get titillated by men.
But that last part is just what he is, it's not really who he is.
Being gay doesn't constrain you to a particular set of beliefs.
There's plenty people active on the right that are all kinds of diverse; hispanic, gay, asian. Look at that recent shooter, a trans person with a history of far right activism with neonazi tattoos who said they were "to the right of hitler" but also, transgendered.
It's really all over the map. Shit's complicated.
It must be a miserable life to think your very existence is wrong.
But he has the billions to buy him happiness anyway, so, I guess he's OK.
That's not at all how happiness works.
I’m sure you wouldn’t want your own private life leaked this way.
You can see what this would look like already by searching for prnewswire https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWF...
Companies pay to place those things and some outfits run them. It'd all look like that.
Anyways, journalist reach out for comment and are supposed to consider the response of the parties involved but that's about it.
That was an awful thing to defend, have a sense of shame and apologise Chris.
I don't know why you're engaging this way but this conversation is definitionally a waste of time.
Sometimes that's sex tapes and Epstein Island
It's ok. We're not going to resolve things here
2. Sure. Have a great time
2. freaky
You're conflation a bunch of things there
I can say, for example, entertainment weekly or the national enquirer is in poor taste but I didn't think they should be chased out of business