You should watch the talk
The conflation of Bitcoin with human rights is stupid.
Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship.
p.s. it should always be noted when nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu starts spouting talk about human rights that he is highly selective in whose rights he wants to promote, and that these suspiciously co-align with ppl agitating for régime change in governments not controlled by the North Atlantic oligarchies
Discussion
What do you have to say about Peter Thiel's foundational role in the nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as ? That's something I'd be interested in listening to.
He used to support a lot of free speech causes like the Committee to Protect Journalists and HRF
Then he changed his mind. Not sure what else to say
Heard this a few times now over the years. I want to know more. Do you have any links?
Two links from 2013 examining funding links of the nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as and the associated OFF :
https://truthout.org/articles/using-human-rights-for-right-wing-politics/
> The story of the Oslo Freedom Forum is also a story of US right-wing sponsorship, lack of transparency and “heroes of human rights” involved in supporting serious human rights violations.
The truthout article references this earlier 2013 piece by Max Blumenthal :
As for amount of funding provided by Thiel, a BuzzFeed article states it as at least $900,000 to the HRF, but it is BuzzFeed so not sure about the accuracy. Thiel is also acknowledged on the OFF website as a founding funder (separate to his funding of the HRF) and organiser of the initial conference.
Not enough scrutiny of the HRF/OFf, its backers and its funding sources has been done since those early 2013 articles I linked above.
The Blumenthal piece puts Thiel's finding of the nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as at $535,000 so you may prefer to use that figure over the higher BuzzFeed figure
The largest gift we received from Peter in a calendar year was $100k. He has not given in more than 12 years. Our annual budget today is north of $20M. This is completely silly
Where can I find the full transparent records of all monies received by the nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as and the OFF for each financial year dating back to their foundation ?
So I can verify your assertion
Don’t trust, verify. We are a 501c3 so we are mandated to provide this kind of info in our published 990s