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> But he thinks the growing movement among law enforcement agencies in the United States to use Palantir’s software programs domestically is cause for alarm Pe
by buran77 6y ago
> But he thinks the growing movement among law enforcement agencies in the United States to use Palantir’s software programs domestically is cause for alarm
People are usually easily biased by the information they're constantly fed. It becomes easy to concoct a good explanation for why something unacceptable can become acceptable sometimes. "We're fighting for freedom and democracy", "fighting the enemy", "fighting terrorists and pedophiles". All of a sudden a lot of stuff is justified. Then someone else uses it and the argument gets turned on its head. "They're terrorists, enemies, dictators", all others are too "morally corrupt" to wield this power.
Most of those people are able to justify anything as long as they're doing it or at least it's not being done to them... Until eventually it is Because what's ironic is that most don't realize that to maintain power you must keep your enemies in check but eventually also your own citizens.
- kipchak 6y agoI wonder if there's a good solution to this problem, given it seems to be something well known at least back to WWII.[1] The best I can see is encouraging an open flow of information and education to increase the number of people who see through the fog, but that seems to be a fairly weak bulwark historically. [1]http://www.mit.edu/people/fuller/peace/war_goering.html http://www.mit.edu/people/fuller/peace/war_goering.html
- sjg007 6y agoA lot of it is political. Where sheriffs, judges, prosecutors are elected officials there can be intense rhetoric. People want to be re-elected and the we are protecting you is a fail safe argument. That's starting to turn with proposals for police reform but what is clear is that there's not a lot of data collection and evidence based analysis in policy making.