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I think many HN readers don't gloss "Palantir CEO" as "tech celebrity" but rather as "Spymaster of Evil Mercenary Spy Agency". To these people, news where the
by derefr 5y ago
I think many HN readers don't gloss "Palantir CEO" as "tech celebrity" but rather as "Spymaster of Evil Mercenary Spy Agency".
To these people, news where the Evil Spymaster does something humanist and caring, would be surprising news, simply by being completely at odds with their biases.
- OrvalWintermute 5y agoWhat is so different between Evil Spymaster for the US Govt [1], and Evil Spymaster for every advertiser [2], and potentially other govts, and the Evil Spymaster that sells your data [3]? Perhaps the exception is that one doesn't mine on their own and merely integrates data, whereas the other 2 are actively weaponizing data against their own users? [1] https://www.palantir.com/ https://www.palantir.com/ [2] http://www.google.com/ http://www.google.com/ [3] https://www.facebook.com/ https://www.facebook.com/
- derefr 5y agoI believe the sense anti-Palantir people have is that queries against Palantir's database directly result in people being put under criminal/terrorist suspicion; and that that's kinda the whole point of their business model. Advertisers generally aren't out to kill you.