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No, but I am curious why this one company gets some much hate. I can get being politically opposed to the conservative politics of some of its founders, but the

No, but I am curious why this one company gets some much hate. I can get being politically opposed to the conservative politics of some of its founders, but the vast majority of conservative-founded companies don't get nearly as much criticism. A lot of it is seriously borderline Q-anon levels of conspiratorial talk. Just look at the comment in this thread insinuating that Peter Thiel is going to assassinate people with orbital weapons.

tombert 7mo ago
Alex Karp is a deeply unlikable human who talks about how his software is used to kill people, and that he wants to drop a lot of fentanyl-laced urine across all the negative reporters.
- detourdog 7mo ago
  Also he has stated that critics should be sprayed with fentanyl laced urine. https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/17/palantir-piss/ https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/17/palantir-piss/ Why should we feel good about him running any company.
- polski-g 7mo ago
  Do you think there are zero people on earth who need to be killed?
  - jazzyjackson 7mo ago
    Certainly we do not need to make those decisions based on fuzzy vector search, probably how the opening salvo of the Iran war ended up killing a hundred school girls
schubidubiduba 7mo ago
The people controlling Palantir are openly anti-democratic. They see technology as a means of controlling and ruling the common folk. They said so, repeatedly, in public, of their own volition.
- Manuel_D 7mo ago
  Can you point to where they have said so? The only one that comes to mind is Thiel's quote from 2009 about democracy being incompatible worth freedom (the populace will vote to remove freedoms, e.g. try to ban AI or other technological advances and whatnot). But pointing out flaws in democracy is a far cry from actual wanting to get rid of democracy. If he's stated an actual intent to end democracy in the US, it'd be good to cite that.
  - frm88 7mo ago
    https://sfl.media/peter-thiel-isnt-anti-democracy-hes-post-democracy/ https://sfl.media/peter-thiel-isnt-anti-democracy-hes-post-d... His vision of statehood is autocratic in that he emphasises efficiency and progress which can only be achieved via a CEO-like government. Please watch the interview with Joe Rogan.
    - Manuel_D 7mo ago
      The only quote from Thiel in that piece is the same "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" I wrote about in my comment.
btown 7mo ago
Your point is well taken, though it's worth pointing out that literally yesterday Palantir was co-awarded a contract for building orbital weapons systems [0]. The broader point is Palantir's specific confluence of: - access to granular, non-anonymized data across industry silos - its chairman's specific pro-authoritarian mission (so pointedly so that the Catholic Church felt the need to make a specific rebuke a few days ago [1]) - a regulatory environment in which its monetary risks are arguably minimized if it takes the broadest possible reading of e.g. HIPAA's law enforcement exceptions that mention "written administrative requests" [2] - documented concerns about governance [3] Those concerned with this confluence are far from conspiracy theorists, and may be quite rationally interested in protecting e.g. the public reputation of their hospital networks, and ability to service - to say nothing of their desire to protect the privacy of their patients. [0] https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-03-24/anduril-palantir-developing-golden-dome-missile-shields-software-source-says https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-03-24/and... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/peter-thiel-rome-antichrist-catholics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/peter-thiel-... - https://archive.is/2EOXa https://archive.is/2EOXa [2] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/505/what-does-the-privacy-rule-allow-covered-entities-to-disclose-to-law-enforcement-officials/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/505/what-doe... [3] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-palantir-technologies-requesting-third-party-human-rights-risk-assessment/ https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-palantir-techn...
- remarkEon 7mo ago
  Have you considered that a weapons platform like that could be necessary? Or are you just opposed to Palantir being part of it.
  - twelve40 7mo ago
    well, there _is_ this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty "bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space" but 1. today's sentiment is: to hell with these treaties-schmeaties, and 2. what you mentioned is not yet a weapon of _mass_ destruction, so we're all good!
flawn 7mo ago
Look into Peter Thiel, the current administration and how it all ties back to Palantir. No conspirations here, just openly known facts.
- Manuel_D 7mo ago
  What are those openly known facts?
throwawaypath 7mo ago
>No, but I am curious why this one company gets some much hate. Mostly because hating Palantir is a trendy leftist virtue signal. Defund ICE being another one. Defund the police was trendy five years ago, but is no longer popular.
presentation 7mo ago
Hating Palantir without having any idea of what they are is the trendy thing to do. Their leaders are toxic which doesn’t help the case, but the core issue really is just that in this political climate, people all over the western world don’t trust their governments, and it’s also trendy to distrust anyone making money, as well as tech companies - especially those involved in data and AI related businesses - so the fact that Palantir makes these distrusted actors more competent while making money doing it, is seen as siding with the devil. So it’s a trust problem, if the government were seen as effective and worthy then I want them to be effective, which includes using the data they collect effectively. In this climate trendy people would prefer that their corrupt government is also fully incompetent to limit the effect of the corruption.
ashtonshears 7mo ago
Saying they have ‘conservative values’ is the death blow to conservativism, given their explicit anti-democratic, and fundamentally extremist leadership
Spooky23 7mo ago
Their founder is a lunatic giving a lecture tour about the anti-Christ and the need to move beyond national-states. The CEO is on some bizarre PR tour where he comes off like a Bond villain.
timacles 7mo ago
It’s obvious all your questions are not authentic and you have a motive and this thread is clearly being astroturfed but I will entertain. They build immigrant databases and help ICE (a corrupt agency performing illegal, unethical and unamerican agenda) find people to deport. Hopefully people here can see past this aloof act you’ve got going on.
- Manuel_D 7mo ago
  Responses like these are a big part of what convinces me that the hysteria around Palantir is unfounded. I see broad claims about how the company is violating privacy, going to overthrow democracy, etc. but when pushed for details, most people just fall back on basic partisanship.
  - timacles 7mo ago
    Sure bud keep playing dumb Hope the compensation is worth being a bottom feeder This reminds of back when DOGE was doing its rounds and all of sudden there were waves of posts with the same tone making the same argument.

tombert 7mo ago

Alex Karp is a deeply unlikable human who talks about how his software is used to kill people, and that he wants to drop a lot of fentanyl-laced urine across all the negative reporters.

detourdog 7mo ago
Also he has stated that critics should be sprayed with fentanyl laced urine. https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/17/palantir-piss/ https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/17/palantir-piss/ Why should we feel good about him running any company.
polski-g 7mo ago
Do you think there are zero people on earth who need to be killed?
- jazzyjackson 7mo ago
  Certainly we do not need to make those decisions based on fuzzy vector search, probably how the opening salvo of the Iran war ended up killing a hundred school girls

schubidubiduba 7mo ago

The people controlling Palantir are openly anti-democratic. They see technology as a means of controlling and ruling the common folk. They said so, repeatedly, in public, of their own volition.

Manuel_D 7mo ago
Can you point to where they have said so? The only one that comes to mind is Thiel's quote from 2009 about democracy being incompatible worth freedom (the populace will vote to remove freedoms, e.g. try to ban AI or other technological advances and whatnot). But pointing out flaws in democracy is a far cry from actual wanting to get rid of democracy. If he's stated an actual intent to end democracy in the US, it'd be good to cite that.
- frm88 7mo ago
  https://sfl.media/peter-thiel-isnt-anti-democracy-hes-post-democracy/ https://sfl.media/peter-thiel-isnt-anti-democracy-hes-post-d... His vision of statehood is autocratic in that he emphasises efficiency and progress which can only be achieved via a CEO-like government. Please watch the interview with Joe Rogan.
  - Manuel_D 7mo ago
    The only quote from Thiel in that piece is the same "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" I wrote about in my comment.

btown 7mo ago

Your point is well taken, though it's worth pointing out that literally yesterday Palantir was co-awarded a contract for building orbital weapons systems [0]. The broader point is Palantir's specific confluence of: - access to granular, non-anonymized data across industry silos - its chairman's specific pro-authoritarian mission (so pointedly so that the Catholic Church felt the need to make a specific rebuke a few days ago [1]) - a regulatory environment in which its monetary risks are arguably minimized if it takes the broadest possible reading of e.g. HIPAA's law enforcement exceptions that mention "written administrative requests" [2] - documented concerns about governance [3] Those concerned with this confluence are far from conspiracy theorists, and may be quite rationally interested in protecting e.g. the public reputation of their hospital networks, and ability to service - to say nothing of their desire to protect the privacy of their patients. [0] https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-03-24/anduril-palantir-developing-golden-dome-missile-shields-software-source-says https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-03-24/and... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/peter-thiel-rome-antichrist-catholics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/peter-thiel-... - https://archive.is/2EOXa https://archive.is/2EOXa [2] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/505/what-does-the-privacy-rule-allow-covered-entities-to-disclose-to-law-enforcement-officials/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/505/what-doe... [3] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-palantir-technologies-requesting-third-party-human-rights-risk-assessment/ https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-palantir-techn...

remarkEon 7mo ago
Have you considered that a weapons platform like that could be necessary? Or are you just opposed to Palantir being part of it.
- twelve40 7mo ago
  well, there _is_ this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty "bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space" but 1. today's sentiment is: to hell with these treaties-schmeaties, and 2. what you mentioned is not yet a weapon of _mass_ destruction, so we're all good!

flawn 7mo ago

Look into Peter Thiel, the current administration and how it all ties back to Palantir. No conspirations here, just openly known facts.

Manuel_D 7mo ago
What are those openly known facts?

throwawaypath 7mo ago

>No, but I am curious why this one company gets some much hate. Mostly because hating Palantir is a trendy leftist virtue signal. Defund ICE being another one. Defund the police was trendy five years ago, but is no longer popular.

presentation 7mo ago

Hating Palantir without having any idea of what they are is the trendy thing to do. Their leaders are toxic which doesn’t help the case, but the core issue really is just that in this political climate, people all over the western world don’t trust their governments, and it’s also trendy to distrust anyone making money, as well as tech companies - especially those involved in data and AI related businesses - so the fact that Palantir makes these distrusted actors more competent while making money doing it, is seen as siding with the devil. So it’s a trust problem, if the government were seen as effective and worthy then I want them to be effective, which includes using the data they collect effectively. In this climate trendy people would prefer that their corrupt government is also fully incompetent to limit the effect of the corruption.

ashtonshears 7mo ago

Saying they have ‘conservative values’ is the death blow to conservativism, given their explicit anti-democratic, and fundamentally extremist leadership

Spooky23 7mo ago

Their founder is a lunatic giving a lecture tour about the anti-Christ and the need to move beyond national-states. The CEO is on some bizarre PR tour where he comes off like a Bond villain.

timacles 7mo ago

It’s obvious all your questions are not authentic and you have a motive and this thread is clearly being astroturfed but I will entertain. They build immigrant databases and help ICE (a corrupt agency performing illegal, unethical and unamerican agenda) find people to deport. Hopefully people here can see past this aloof act you’ve got going on.

Manuel_D 7mo ago
Responses like these are a big part of what convinces me that the hysteria around Palantir is unfounded. I see broad claims about how the company is violating privacy, going to overthrow democracy, etc. but when pushed for details, most people just fall back on basic partisanship.
- timacles 7mo ago
  Sure bud keep playing dumb Hope the compensation is worth being a bottom feeder This reminds of back when DOGE was doing its rounds and all of sudden there were waves of posts with the same tone making the same argument.