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Warpy

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43. Oh, absolutely

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jan 12, 2017, 09:54 PM

Jan 2017

We peasants will have no problem avoiding kissing the hem of his royal robes. We simply have to determine and employ other forms of non cooperation and encourage others to do the same.

I imagine Thiel is trying to figure out how to shut Buzz Feed down now that Gawker is gone. Eventually people who leak documents and post embarrassing crap about Trump online are going to have to make extensive use of Tor.

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The group of writers formerly known as Gawker is on fire today-No wonder Thiel wanted them shut down [View all] kpete Jan 2017 OP

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