• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    A decade ago a young an gifted software developer acquaintance of mine was going to work for Palantir and already back then I warned him of the kind of company he was joining.

    After the Snowden Revelations it was already pretty obvious that Palantir specialized in data analytics of and overview interfaces for mass surveillance data - they made their money from helping authoritarian activities, including those in supposed Democracies.

    It’s pretty obvious that a company doing that is built on the principled of having no Ethics or Morals.

    Go to bed with the dogs, wake up with fleas.

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      4 hours ago

      i first became aware of the company, when i was searching on lore about the lotr objects, what you know it led to a website owned by thiel, and then it became more apparent when helped sued gawker who was likely investigating thiel on his companies shady practices.