Billionaire Peter Thiel said Friday that Silicon Valley, where he spent most of his career, has become "a totalitarian place" that shuts out conservatives like himself.
Thiel said in an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that he took "heat" in Silicon Valley for his vocal support for President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
"Of course I got heat and I don't want to exaggerate the importance that I think it's OK to be in a place where most people are liberal or most people have views different from my own," he said. "I do think there is something different when it goes from a large majority having one way to it being almost unanimous ... because things are never unanimous.
"When people are unanimously on one side, that tells me not that they've all figured out the truth but that they are in sort of a totalitarian place, that they are in a one-party state where they are not allowed to have dissenting views."
Thiel added that "Silicon Valley will continue producing great companies but perhaps not quite as many," he said, before predicting that Los Angeles will see more growth due to its "more diversified economy," and because it "has much less of a sense of everyone being on top of one another thinking the same way in one place."
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