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Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations

Posted by Unknown on from the principality-of-sealand-declares-war dept.

MadMartigan2001 writes with a pretty crazy article on a project involving floating libertarian paradises. From the article: "PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties."

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  1. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A standing militia of lawyers can and will pose more of an obstetrical to the U.S. Navy than all the guns you can squeeze onto an oil platform

    An army of lawyers will service the U.S. Navy's vagina better than guns will? That must be a really big vagina. Did the U.S. Navy by chance capture a brainbug?