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Mark Zuckerberg Votes To Keep Peter Thiel On Facebook Board (gizmodo.com)
Mark Zuckerberg has decided to keep billionaire VC Peter Thiel on Facebook's board of directors. The decision comes after weeks of controversy over whether it was appropriate for billionaire Thiel, who recently admitted to secretly funding a campaign of third-party lawsuits to bankrupt Gawker Media (more relevant but paywalled link, to remain on the board of a company that now plays such a powerful role in publishing. From a Gizmodo report: At Facebook's annual shareholders meeting today, every board member was up for re-election. The decision was made by shareholder vote, but ultimately fell to Zuckerberg, who controls more than 60 percent of the total voting power on the Facebook board.
Can't have them being accountable to the plebs.
The thinking is that private actions and motivations may color their judgment. Maybe not so far, but what happens if for example it's somehow financially advantageous for Facebook to partner with Gawker? That isn't going to happen with Thiel around.
> I didn't like the way that prior Mozilla executive was treated either. His performance at Mozilla should have been his only employment criteria.
Oh you mean the one who believes that not everyone is equal?
> What he did to be active in politics during his own time was no one else's business.
The irony burns. It was no one's business except any gays who wanted to get married. Which is interesting because I don't see how any gay people getting married impacts the former Mozilla exec's life at all, but there he was doing his damndest to make sure they couldn't.