In writing a biography of Thiel, the deck was stacked against Max Chafkin, the Bloomberg Businessweek writer and editor who daringly took to the task. And he is an immigrant Internet-pioneer, who effectively bought his way into New Zealand citizenship, all the while pushing for closed borders at home. He is a free speech defender who helped sue an unfriendly blog, Gawker, into oblivion. He is strident libertarian and privacy advocate who sells data-mining software to the government. He is an early Facebook investor who decries the effects of social media and calls for antitrust investigations of Big Tech. He is a gay Christian-sympathizing conservative who has long loved to needle the politically correct crowd.
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