It appears that Peter Thiel, of Palantir Technologies, is backing Donald Trump. Vox thinks that this confluence is a greater threat to The Freedom of the Press than suing media companies.
Thiel wrote in 2009: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" because a system of universal suffrage subjects capitalists "to the unthinking demos that guides so-called 'social democracy.'"
"The fate of our world," he wrote "may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism." At the time he was referring to Patri Friedman's ridiculous plan to build an offshore utopia composed of boats that would be free from the long arm of the state. Thiel's decision to serve as a Trump delegate at the forthcoming Republican convention in Clevelandseems to suggest that he's turned away from that turn away from politics and has now embraced a new Great Leader to make the world safe for capitalism: Trump.
This is the type of confluence that is dangerous to democracy. Trump is an autocrat waiting to happen and Thiel has no problem going after things he detests. The fact that Thiel is part of Palantir Technologies is the scariest part. Government and Corporate data mining is what they do. That back backs Trump. Not a good union.