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Palantir Provides the Engine for Donald Trump’s Deportation Machine

93 points by jbegley 10y ago

astrodust 10y ago
An important primer for anyone curious about how this could play out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- M_Grey 10y ago
  "Couldn't have done it without 'em" -Hiter ...Ok maybe that's apocryphal. The truth is though, without IBM, IG Farben, Volkswagon and others... he couldn't have. We always like to see leaders as some kind of mythical figure, but it's the pencil pushers, anonymous bureaucrats, and people looking to make a profit who really make it happen.
  - astrodust 10y ago
    One of the take-aways from that book was how precisely targeted the police were. Early on they were rounding up people who were ostensibly Jewish, they were easy to identify, but later they'd moved on to pin-point identifying people who were 1/4 or 1/8th Jewish, people who didn't even know they were technically Jewish at all. This was only possible because birth records were systematically computerized, processed, and tabulated by these early computer systems. Those punch-cards encoded everything about a person. When they showed up in towns they'd have lists of specific people they were looking for. This has extremely disconcerting parallels to these ICE raids that are ongoing.
HeavenBanned 10y ago
i'm absolutely stunned as everyone on HN has been going berserk over uber's bro-behavior. but when Palantir executes hitlerian policies, not a peep is to be heard. Oh well, that's America for you. I'm not excusing Uber's culture, but one person feeling uncomfortable for a second is absolutely nothing compared to this massive miscarriage of justice that is literally tearing and ruining families. Where is the proportional outrage?
ForHackernews 10y ago
Hey, now it's time for all the Palantir employees who signed this pledge http://neveragain.tech/ http://neveragain.tech/ to stand up, right? Matthew Avant, Shanthanu Bhardwaj, Sarang Shah, what say you?
atmosx 10y ago
The intercept is a (if not the ) prime example of journalism.

93 points by jbegley 10y ago

An important primer for anyone curious about how this could play out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

M_Grey 10y ago
"Couldn't have done it without 'em" -Hiter ...Ok maybe that's apocryphal. The truth is though, without IBM, IG Farben, Volkswagon and others... he couldn't have. We always like to see leaders as some kind of mythical figure, but it's the pencil pushers, anonymous bureaucrats, and people looking to make a profit who really make it happen.
- astrodust 10y ago
  One of the take-aways from that book was how precisely targeted the police were. Early on they were rounding up people who were ostensibly Jewish, they were easy to identify, but later they'd moved on to pin-point identifying people who were 1/4 or 1/8th Jewish, people who didn't even know they were technically Jewish at all. This was only possible because birth records were systematically computerized, processed, and tabulated by these early computer systems. Those punch-cards encoded everything about a person. When they showed up in towns they'd have lists of specific people they were looking for. This has extremely disconcerting parallels to these ICE raids that are ongoing.

HeavenBanned 10y ago

i'm absolutely stunned as everyone on HN has been going berserk over uber's bro-behavior. but when Palantir executes hitlerian policies, not a peep is to be heard. Oh well, that's America for you. I'm not excusing Uber's culture, but one person feeling uncomfortable for a second is absolutely nothing compared to this massive miscarriage of justice that is literally tearing and ruining families. Where is the proportional outrage?

ForHackernews 10y ago

Hey, now it's time for all the Palantir employees who signed this pledge http://neveragain.tech/ http://neveragain.tech/ to stand up, right? Matthew Avant, Shanthanu Bhardwaj, Sarang Shah, what say you?

atmosx 10y ago

The intercept is a (if not the ) prime example of journalism.