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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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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 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

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

This post makes that case.

https://ope1.substack.com/p/peter-thiels-panopticon-when-cia

Palantir has Intel on every country and every world leader. They are more powerful than the governments that they have contracts with.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can try, but datacenters usually have robust fire suppression and are extremely difficult to gain unauthorized access to.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Everyone was so in love with the idea of a new world order and an illuminati that Thiel and friends decided to become it.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

thiel has been quite obssesed with mass surveillance, hes literally like Memnarch from mtg lore, who spys on th whole plane using scrying pools and myrs.