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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Brave is the offspring of "libertarian" (sociopathic authoritarian billionaire supporting JD Vance) Peter Thiel.

https://marketrealist.com/p/who-owns-brave-browser/

Thiel, among other things, founded palantir, facial recognition software used by police worldwide.

https://www.palantir.com/platforms/

He hates the western world. Hates democracy.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-steve-bannon-peter-thiel-214490/

Openly states his plans to destroy the economy and implement a crypto financial system.

~~https://ncio.ca/briefings/person-who-caused-the-collapse-of-silicon-valley-bank-is-an-active-member-of-germanys-proxy-the-world-economic-forum/~~

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/14/founders-fund-run-silicon-valley-bank

And, this is true, he's the current president of the bilderberg group.

https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2024/participants-2024

He is not your friend.

He should never be trusted.

Brave is not the private browser you think it is.

By supporting brave you are supporting an authoritarian technocratic state.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't love Peter Theil by any means, and his association with any project is, to my mind, enough to completely discredit it.

But I get a little worried when it starts turning into references to the bilderberg group, and whatever that link is to NCIO.ca is just completely nuts, low evidence jumping to conclusions.

He certainly has crazy ideas that I want no part of, but I think it crosses the line into conspiratorial to suggest he was instructed by Germany to act as a foreign agent to sabotage the global economy.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nico was a mistake, I meant to link another site. Granted. You can look for yourself that it was thiel who called for the run on the bank. https://www.axios.com/2023/03/14/founders-fund-run-silicon-valley-bank

But bilderberg group is real. Very real. (They had a meeting here, once https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kanata-hotel-hosts-high-level-power-group-1.601298 )

And thiel is president.

Also, if you can find his manifesto (I'm having a hard time locating it ) he openly states everything i said.

Also :

https://time.com/6092844/peter-thiel-power-biography-the-contrarian/

Thiel taught this class at Stanford and then turned it into a book called Zero to One. He talks about how companies are better run than governments because they have a single decision maker—a dictator, basically. He is hostile to the idea of democracy. That’s pretty scary when you consider the role the companies that he’s been involved in play. Facebook, I’d say is the most influential media entity in the history of humanity, but he also has a major stake in several defense contractors, including SpaceX

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Which lines of its libre software source code are malicous?

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which line of chrome is malicious?

Jfc.

Here's a cherry, now you don't have to pick any.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Google Chrome is not libre software.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Why are you making it about that question in particular? There's a lot of topics that have been raised here, notably Google's Chromium project, the way it's killing ad blockers, the way that other browsers also use chromium, people associated with those browsers.

In this range of subjects I'm not sure what the significance is of elevating this libre software question above everything else.