in fact that is exactly the argument made by the interview here, so there you go

I agree it's weird nobody is talking about this. Post to a bunch of techs that they're going to spy on their chats you'll get thousands of outraged comments. Post that a prominent billionaire with deep inroads into many areas of the tech industry and governments around the world, not only but specifically including the area of mass surveillance and data collection, might be gearing up to bring planetary scale religious indoctrination online, yawns.

I wouldn't say 'might'.

He already is. A supermajority of techies wholeheartedly believe in Thiel and Thiel's 'mission', even if they don't realize it yet.

The rot has been here all along.

Look on the bright side China will save us from all these batshit insane American clowns.