If you needed another reminder that Thiel delights in and financially backs despotic authoritarianism, here it is. His vision for our country's future is Russia today.
How is backing a permissive free speech focused video hosting site authoritarianism? Authoritarians lock down and control speech. You have it completely backwards.
Putin, for example, does not support anything remotely like Rumble. It's the opposite of what he supports.
Well, neither am I, considering that the Western governments have been using the term "democracy" to launder a specific flavor of apparatchik authoritarianism.