Just occured to me that functionally that seems to be their role. Conspiratorially, super troubling. Viewed this way, it's essentially the NSA without political oversight (what little the NSA had to begin with).

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[–] 65 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

Worse, the NSA is (theoretically) below the government in the pecking order

Palantir are trying to elevate themselves above governments

That's a bad thing because ostensibly democracy allows us to influence the government, there's very little we can do to influence palantir

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    we could try setting their data centers on fire. that would most certainly influence them.

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