Peter Thiel: Investigate Google Over ‘Treasonous Decision to Work with the Chinese Military’
Shane Trejo
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Libertarian tech mogul Peter Thiel addressed the National Conservatism Conference on Sunday night where he questioned Google’s motives in assisting the Chinese military while refusing to help the U.S. military.
Thiel, who serves as a board member for Facebook and is one of the few prominent Trump supporters on Silicon Valley, believes Google must be held accountable for its dubious business practices and forced to answer the following three questions:
“Number one, how many foreign intelligence agencies have infiltrated your Manhattan Project for AI?”
“Number two, does Google’s senior management consider itself to have been thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence?
“Number three, is it because they consider themselves to be so thoroughly infiltrated that they have engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military… because they are making the sort of bad, short-term rationalistic [decision] that if the technology doesn’t go out the front door, it gets stolen out the backdoor anyway?
Thiel added that these questions “need to be asked by the FBI, by the CIA, and I’m not sure quite how to put this, I would like them to be asked in a not excessively gentle manner.”
He is the co-founder of the data mining company Palantr, a competitor to Google that does business with the U.S. federal government receiving contracts from the Department of Defense, FBI and CIA. Joe Lonsdale, another co-founder of Palantir, defended Thiel’s sentiments earlier today.
“Google is not a patriotic company,” Londale said.
“Everyone in the Valley knows that the Chinese government is very involved,” Lonsdale said while appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.” “It’s something we don’t talk about a lot. It was very courageous of [Thiel] to talk about it.”
Thiel’s assertion of Google’s lack of patriotism is bolstered by recent revelations uncovered by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, who discovered that Google is planning electoral interference to undermine U.S. democracy to prevent President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2020.
“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that,” said Jen Gennai, who works as Google’s Head of Responsible Innovation, on hidden camera.
“We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again,” she added.
The National Conservatism Conference continues in Washington D.C. until Tuesday and keynote speakers include other right-wing critics of Big Tech monopolies such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
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