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Its pretty gross that tech people look up to this company and its founder. We should be doing everything we can to bring them down. This company led by a man

Its pretty gross that tech people look up to this company and its founder. We should be doing everything we can to bring them down. This company led by a man who regrets that women got the vote and that apartheid ended in south africa and runs a company that helps governments spy on citizens. He also helped trumps insurrection attempt while readying himself to bail out to new zealand in case whatever sick experiment he had in mind didn’t work out to his advantage. nevermind if the rest of us plebs die.

LightDub 4y ago
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itronitron 4y ago
I don't know any tech people that look up to this company or its founder.
morpheuskafka 4y ago
It's just a strange feeling to be browsing LinkedIn and see a job pop up for a company like this. Almost like it's an ad to work for the Nazi party or something. Like do people just click on these, read the description, and apply for the job without a second thought of what it is they actually do? It's not even like the military or three-letter agencies that can claim to be serving their own country, it's just a for-profit enterprise that will serve any government that hires them.
- TotempaaltJ 4y ago
  > it's just a for-profit enterprise that will serve any government that hires them. Palantir does only work with "Western-aligned" governments, so this isn't quite true. > Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp says that employees unhappy with the company’s mission—or its dealings with Western governments and militaries—should leave. > > “We want people who want to be on the side of the West, making the West a better society,” Karp said on Wednesday at an event for the World Economic Forum, continuing that Palantir “may not be your cup of tea.” https://fortune.com/2023/01/19/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-world-economic-forum-dont-work-here/ https://fortune.com/2023/01/19/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-world-...
  - morpheuskafka 4y ago
    Fair enough, although a lot of that isn't really their choice. They are a US based company, they aren't going to be able to sell this stuff to Russia and China. And if they were there, they wouldn't be able to sell to the US. "Western-aligned" isn't completely up to the company to define, but it sure is a completely flexible term. Whether a country like Saudi Arabia or Turkey is "Western-aligned" seems open to interpretation and changes with the geopolitical winds.

LightDub 4y ago

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itronitron 4y ago

I don't know any tech people that look up to this company or its founder.

morpheuskafka 4y ago

It's just a strange feeling to be browsing LinkedIn and see a job pop up for a company like this. Almost like it's an ad to work for the Nazi party or something. Like do people just click on these, read the description, and apply for the job without a second thought of what it is they actually do? It's not even like the military or three-letter agencies that can claim to be serving their own country, it's just a for-profit enterprise that will serve any government that hires them.

TotempaaltJ 4y ago
> it's just a for-profit enterprise that will serve any government that hires them. Palantir does only work with "Western-aligned" governments, so this isn't quite true. > Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp says that employees unhappy with the company’s mission—or its dealings with Western governments and militaries—should leave. > > “We want people who want to be on the side of the West, making the West a better society,” Karp said on Wednesday at an event for the World Economic Forum, continuing that Palantir “may not be your cup of tea.” https://fortune.com/2023/01/19/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-world-economic-forum-dont-work-here/ https://fortune.com/2023/01/19/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-world-...
- morpheuskafka 4y ago
  Fair enough, although a lot of that isn't really their choice. They are a US based company, they aren't going to be able to sell this stuff to Russia and China. And if they were there, they wouldn't be able to sell to the US. "Western-aligned" isn't completely up to the company to define, but it sure is a completely flexible term. Whether a country like Saudi Arabia or Turkey is "Western-aligned" seems open to interpretation and changes with the geopolitical winds.