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).
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).
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
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.
Everyone was so in love with the idea of a new world order and an illuminati that Thiel and friends decided to become it.
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.
we could try setting their data centers on fire. that would most certainly influence them.
You can try, but datacenters usually have robust fire suppression and are extremely difficult to gain unauthorized access to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE