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>. Raytheon or Palantir employees, where the delta in morality is much greater, but convincing people to go from neutral-ish to good is harder than convincing them to go from bad to good.

Did palantir do shady things ? I now that the CEO got in trouble for looking down on poor people ( or something along those lines ?), but is there more ?

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Does Palantir publicize what projects they work on for DoD, DoJ, IRS, ICE, Treasury/Secret Service, etc? Why do you think people in a democratic (yes, I know, Constitutional Republic) should not be able to know about what secret projects are being performed with their tacit approval, in their name, with their tax dollars?

It’s not exactly fair to criticize a company because of what they aren’t telling us, but that goes with the territory.

Now? The name of the company is Palantir. That's not an accident. They're telling you exactly what they do, what they always have done, and always will do. If you're comfortable selling surveillance technology to abusive governments, that's up to you. But this isn't some surprise new thing.

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