Late last year, a top US general went public with a pointed question for Google’s leadership, around the time the search giant was coming under fire over its interest in developing a search engine for use in China. Why, Marine General Joseph Dunbar wondered aloud, is Google willing to work with that communist regime but not its own government? The company around that time had also made a big show of backing out of a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with the US Defense Dept.
Now, billionaire investor and Facebook board member Peter Thiel is posing a version of the same question — though his stance is much tougher and more ominous than the one the general took. At an event in Washington DC on Sunday, the controversial businessman who’s never been shy about sharing his (not always politically correct) opinions said he thinks the FBI and CIA should probe Google over potentially ‘treasonous’ behavior.
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