I read the part 1 of that and the reasons range from image concerns, to data security issues, to talking to the completely wrong fucking person because they don’t understand the governemt structure, to just getting ghosted. And there are a few more. It was a very funny read to me.
As much as I hate these assholes coopting Tolkien’s works, it is a really apt name for this company. In the story, the Palantir were wonderous tools for communication until they were corrupted and taken over by literal evil, turned into tools of surveillance and control.
I dislike that the article refers to Thiel as a Libertarian without putting quote marks around it. While he is firmly opposed to governments regulating businesses, he makes and sells the tools to help governments exercise more authority over private citizens. I know the term has also been largely coopted by fascists, but it still annoys me.
I’m just over here enjoying the fact that their reach (at least as far as we know) isn’t absolute, and they’re being forced to eat a dick, legally speaking.
Oh, what’s that?
Palantir doesn’t like it when people know about THEIR dirty laundry?
Wow. Golly. Gee whiz. Color me shocked with a marker that is bone fucking dry.
Maybe they should’ve thought about that before trying to fuck with OUR private business.
Palantir has violated social contract and no longer deserves privacy.
I also don’t understand why they’re bothered, a name like that says it all. It’s the same as calling themselves Evil Inc., Satan Corp. or something.
Ban that corrupted spawn of satan from operating in Europe
I would take it a step further, ban them from the EU, yes Switzerland is separate from them, then put sanctions on countries that do use them, to prevent palantir scooping up their information in countries like the UK. The way this digital surveillance works they can get a lot of information on Europeans because the UK has given them base access to their compromised internet. Something that’s been ongoing for like 15 years at least. The UK was at the cusp of changing their internet providing to give their government’s contractors unchecked access to it at a base level, or so I read 15 some years ago.
Obviously they are taking that compromising to another level with age checks and masterbaitorbases and forcing users to hand biometrics and id to private interests that will connect every account with everything said and looked at with all of the cameras and microphones and facial recognition and make social scores on everyone to be used against them secretly in ways you won’t be told about and cannot challenge. Half baked threat detection being run by the company owned by the guy that wants to spray his opponents and critics with fentanyl by drone, his words.
(you can donate to their defense fund)
I’m pretty certain we’re not going to spend our way out of this. If the answer is not to seize the means of production, then we’re gonna have to at least seize the means of oppression. Everything billionaires own in any country that means to be free should be seized.
This won’t happen, of course, until they wreak a lot more havoc, unfortunately the havoc they are wreaking is not laying the groundwork for the countries that host them to be more free.
