<story><title>Peter Thiel was an FBI informant</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Thiel&amp;#x27;s reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley. Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google&amp;#x27;s ties to the Chinese government.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seems like a lot of words to leave this comment buried in the middle of. The story seems like a soup of hopeful political operators trying to sow chaos, and since they&amp;#x27;re all on the same side, the publisher is happy to oblige.  Talking to the IC at all gives them the unlimited option to call you an informant if you ever get involved in something counter-establishment anyway.&lt;p&gt;One gets the impression that part of America&amp;#x27;s new class system is whether you are connected to the intelligence community somehow, as if you have a certain level of responsibility at all, someone who knows someone always seems to be in touch or within a degree of separation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silenced_trope</author><text>Yikes is that really an &amp;quot;FBI informant&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;It sounds logical, consider this news item from yesterday: &amp;quot;Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China&amp;#x27;s IP theft program now at &amp;#x27;unprecedented&amp;#x27; levels&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;five_eyes_china_espionage&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;five_eyes_china_espio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should people here really just accept other nations blatantly stealing and &amp;quot;infiltrating&amp;quot;?</text></comment>
<story><title>Peter Thiel was an FBI informant</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Thiel&amp;#x27;s reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley. Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google&amp;#x27;s ties to the Chinese government.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seems like a lot of words to leave this comment buried in the middle of. The story seems like a soup of hopeful political operators trying to sow chaos, and since they&amp;#x27;re all on the same side, the publisher is happy to oblige.  Talking to the IC at all gives them the unlimited option to call you an informant if you ever get involved in something counter-establishment anyway.&lt;p&gt;One gets the impression that part of America&amp;#x27;s new class system is whether you are connected to the intelligence community somehow, as if you have a certain level of responsibility at all, someone who knows someone always seems to be in touch or within a degree of separation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonmoy</author><text>You conveniently left out the first part of the sentence you are quoting</text></comment>