Nice article. Palantir's practices seem to follow Thiel's master plan for world domination to a T -- establish monopoly then protect it by any means necessary:

Nice article. Palantir's practices seem to follow Thiel's master plan for world domination to a T -- establish monopoly then protect it by any means necessary: obfuscation, proprietary APIs, overly complex user interfaces, and finally claims of sensitive secret company technology that must be kept secret or risk compromise, perhaps causing harm to the US military and lowering our defenses against terrorism. What a crock. There's little doubt that 99% of Palantir's infrastructure is commodity open source, trivial to access, monitor, and replace. It's absurd that any customer would pay a premium for proprietary hardware and system support, much less be told that the system disallows even the shallowest oversight of the company's data and algorithms. Unlike military contracts, police intel must be transparent to oversight and subpoena, or we risk further abrogation of our 4th, 5th, and 1st amendment rights. As an aide to the justice system, Palantir has a lot to explain, not just in court cases but on a continuing daily basis. Anything else violates the very fabric of America's principles.