What indication would there be that the two are related? Do you expect them to write an email specifically stating that was the reason?

For what it's worth, that neobank received funding from his company, which definitely raises the odds of the two being related.

>What indication would there be that the two are related? Do you expect them to write an email specifically stating that was the reason?

I'd want to see a pattern of multiple critics being banned. In the same video he admits that neobanks have a history of banning clients arbitrarily for seemingly no reason. Just a few months ago there was a story of someone being banned from wise for seemingly dumb reasons made it to the front page[1], so it's certainly possible for people to get banned because of pure incompetence. Therefore you'd expect a base rate of Palantir/Thiel critics banned from pure coincidence alone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766253

>For what it's worth, that neobank received funding from his company, which definitely raises the odds of the two being related.

Right, just like you can come up with some spurious relationships from people being banned from wise, like the CEO hating pineapple on pizza (example, no idea whether he actually does) and the person being banned liking pineapple on pizza.

First, we would need to understand if he was actually de-banked.

Then, we would need to understand what his actual criticism was. Have other people made similar criticisms and faced de-banking?

Then, we would need to understand his other activities, and whether they could have led to a de-banking (if he was in fact de-banked).

It raises the odds I suppose, but through what mechanism would something like this even work? Like, the story would have to be:

* Peter Thiel, a man who does not speak French, discovers that a French streamer is saying mean things about Palantir. Lots of people say mean things about Palantir, since they do so many bad things, but this particular criticism is just so cutting Thiel feels he has to do something about it.

* He searches through every investment he's ever made, singling out all the French ones, and sends their executive teams an email saying that this one specific French guy sucks and they shouldn't do business with him.

* The executive team at Qonto, a profitable company with 600,000 customers and almost €500M in annual revenue, receives the message and decides that they'd like to help one of their dozens of investors with his personal revenge campaign.

It's not 100% impossible, but it's so implausible I don't think it's reasonable to believe based on a coincidence.