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Does Walmart actively deceive me? Not that I'm aware, but I don't shop there. Never heard of Glencore or Phillip Morris. As for Blackwater and Palantir, my i

by na85 10y ago

Does Walmart actively deceive me? Not that I'm aware, but I don't shop there. Never heard of Glencore or Phillip Morris. As for Blackwater and Palantir, my impression from the media is they do exactly what they say. It's not like Palantir lies about harvesting data to give to government. I trust that they actually do do that. None of those companies have posted fake news and altered the news algo with the express intent of manipulating users' mental states for reasons that basically boil down to "for the lols" and "let's see if we can make money from this".

praneshp 10y ago
> "Never heard of Glencore or Phillip Morris." The amount of passion in your comment and this gap in knowledge don't go well with each other. I encourage you to at least read about Philip Morris (or watch John Oliver's episode about them at least).
- na85 10y ago
  I'm not from the US, so there's that.
  - praneshp 10y ago
    Cool, no worries. Philip Morris operates worldwide though, and I'll have to hear some awesome arguments to be convinced that facebook is more evil/less trustable than them.