Billionaire founder of Paypal: Investigate Google For Treason

Thiel spoke at the National Conservatism Conference,
a new event that bills itself as being focused on Trump-era
nationalism, with part of his speech focusing on “three questions that
should be asked” of Google:

“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?”

He
also added that those 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.”

Thiel did not specifically mention Facebook,
but it likely will be mentioned by later speakers at the conference,
including Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has agitated against big
tech on the air, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who is seeking to strip
major web platforms of certain legal protections.