Seasteading Institute: Billionaire backer doesn’t ‘dictate’ our island-state plans

A  group that wants to create sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms in international waters is distancing itself from the libertarianism of PayPal founder Peter Thiel after a profile of him in Details Magazine drew attention to the effort. The Details profile described billionaire Thiel’s $1.25 million donation to the Seasteading Institute, and speculated that the

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Seasteading Institute: Billionaire backer doesn’t ‘dictate’ our island-state plans

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