somethingtosay

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by somethingtosay 7y ago
Thank you for the help! So we agree that Palantir is not innocent. Why then, do we not go after both the people doing the mass surveillance AND the people enabling it? Intent matters.
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
So your base argument is: Palantir is innocent because someone else would do the things they're doing if they were gone? I'm not even sure how to respond to that. You seem to have dropped the point about them making surveillance s
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
For some reason I cannot reply to your other comment, so I'll use this one. I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. I know what Palantir does, because some of what they HAVE built has leaked into the public. Here's
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
You're point is either extremely naive or willfully ignorant.
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
A gas chamber is just a room for dispersing particles very finely. See I can do it too.
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
You're purposely ignoring intent. Palantir has been a surveillance company from it's inception.
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
I said it already. They make software specifically for tracking populations. Their user manuals were leaked by vice recently. You can look it up. Trying to equate the software described in those manuals, and what we know of their other cont
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
This is not an accurate comparison you're making and I think you know that. Palantir designs products specifically for mass tracking of people. Tableau does not.
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
That's a very kind way to characterize their work. Regardless, they are in the mass surveillance business. Some of their product manuals are out there to read. Edit: I personally think calling them just a 'consulting' company
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by somethingtosay 7y ago
Let's be honest. Palantir's business model is mass surveillance of people (including, especially, US citizens). They allow many government agencies to circumvent the legal procedures required to access government databases by inst