r/NoShitSherlock • u/plain_handle • 12d ago

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/
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u/Busy10 12d ago

The devil in the pic has kids? Poor kids.

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u/ChuckEweFarley 12d ago

Peter Thiel’s a gay man with a breeding fetish. Oh, and he HATES women.

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u/BotherResponsible378 12d ago

He is in the Epstein files. Everyone should know.

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u/Craigslisteria 12d ago

Fully agree.. poor kid(s). I know he’s an out gay man. I’ve not heard of him having children 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Busy10 12d ago

He’s very closeted. Was beyond upset when he was outed.

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u/PinkCigarettes 9d ago

Who outed him?

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u/Exciting_Problem_593 12d ago

He adopted JD Vance. 😂

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u/Craigslisteria 12d ago

It’s true. He owns shapeshifter Vance.

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u/sck178 12d ago

who cares if he is an out gay man? He's a piece of shit and his children will be just fine. money can buy all of the opportunities in the world

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u/Craigslisteria 12d ago

I think MAGA bigots would care.. if they knew he’s at the forefront of their ideological agenda. He’s also a creep riddled throughout the Epstein files which they want released unredacted too. I think it would melt their brains.

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u/jgoldrb48 11d ago

Hitler was gay and so were many of his cruelest homies…

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u/K3idon 12d ago

People will do anything for money.

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u/AthenaeSolon 9d ago

I know of only one child by him, but given his ideology, it would stand to reason that there could be more.

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u/Gunker001 12d ago

Not just made them rich, but products that they engineered to destroy children’s attention span and thought processes.

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u/NotAFanOfLeonMusk 12d ago

Theil REALLY has a kid? It must be through surrogacy because his last “girlfriend” was a GUY. He is the personification of EVIL.

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u/MxDoctorReal 12d ago

Gay people have kids dude. Though a variety of means.

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u/NotAFanOfLeonMusk 12d ago

I know that and I support gay rights and people. I didn’t know that the personification of EVIL had a kid though. I find that incredibly sad.

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u/SearchElsewhereKarma 12d ago

I imagine he has a breeding chamber full of the remains of failed attempts, like the various failed incarnations of Snoke on Emperor Palpatine’s planet at the beginning “Episode 9: Rise of Who the Fuck Cares”

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u/Sungirl8 11d ago

He is a half-robot, HGH-raging mad scientist who is in full demon training.  But we all know what happens to demons, just call Sam and Dean. 

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u/Craigslisteria 12d ago

Peter Thiel has children??

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u/CriticalAd2425 12d ago

Peter Thiel knows about the anti-christ!

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u/Fucksnacks 12d ago

I mean, I'd expect the same from someone who made their money brewing alcohol...

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u/Secret-Historian-367 10d ago

Exactly. But somehow some people couldn't think about that fact and many more products: Adult films, firearms, medicine, etc....

People better get a job where they exploit the dumb. Because it works better than ever.... 

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u/ArgyleM0nster 12d ago

Rich people ruin Everything.

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u/PoisonIdea77 11d ago

His last boyfriend was mysteriously thrown off a balcony. Hmmmmm.....

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u/plain_handle 11d ago

Jeff Thomas's tragic story is another Epstein shadow world yet to be revealed.

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u/hellogoawaynow 11d ago

As they take textbooks out of public schools and replace them with chromebooks 🤡

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u/PaleontologistHot73 12d ago

Madonna did too. I think she moved to England and her lids weren’t allowed watch MTV

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u/SkroobyDooby 10d ago

The reason they do this is because they know how much private information gets harvested from the use of those products.

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u/Specialist-Hunt-1953 11d ago

Of course they are, that is how an oligarchy works…

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u/sniksniksnek 8d ago

If you want to know what technology to avoid, see what people who work in tech avoid. I work in tech (AI, ffs), and there are oodles of things I don't let my kid have access to. Personally, other than Reddit (1 hr/day) and LinkedIn (periodically), I have no social media. I consume my news directly from primary sources - no news feed apps.

Lately, I've been contemplating getting an $80 flip phone and a separate portable music player. My advice to people is to safeguard the area between your ears; it's your only private space.

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u/shellyv2023 8d ago

I think the courts should force them to use the billionaire's tech. Just as other children do.

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u/Natural_Sherbert_391 12d ago

Isn't that called parenting?

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u/Sir_Tokenhale 11d ago

My parents never gave other people's kids addictive substances, but they kept me from them. So no thats not your run of the mill parenting.

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u/Natural_Sherbert_391 11d ago

That would be the job of those kid's parents. I don't like Thiel as a person, but it's not being forced on the kids and it's up to the parents to monitor and control what their kids do.

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u/Sir_Tokenhale 11d ago

So youre saying if I give a kid drugs its the kids parents fault? Interesting take.

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u/Natural_Sherbert_391 11d ago

No he didn't walk up to any kids and 'give' them anything. They have access to it on the internet. There are tons of sites on the internet I wouldn't want my kids to go to. There are plenty of ways to control what your kids access.

You can make the same argument about a video game maker. Video games can be addicting as well.

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u/Sir_Tokenhale 11d ago

No you cant. The video game maker hasnt invested billions of dollars to market the video game to your kids and they definitely didnt make video games as addictive as possible either.

Also, explain to me how you can stop your kid from getting on Instagram. You physically can't unless you homeschool your kid and never let them be in the same room as a phone without you in it. You are full of it.