I think this manifesto conflates Palantir with:
The CIA
The NSA
JSOC
The US Armed Forces
Weapons Contractors
Law Enforcement
Federal Counter-Intelligence
Various dictatorships
Criminal Enterprises
Hit squads
The CIA
The NSA
JSOC
The US Armed Forces
Weapons Contractors
Law Enforcement
Federal Counter-Intelligence
Various dictatorships
Criminal Enterprises
Hit squads
"The company has found itself at the center of a topic that has become especially important for the United States: how to use AI in defense, intelligence and government management. Palantir has historically been close to this market. Its early investor was In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s investment arm, and its largest customers for a long time were U.S. government agencies and the military. That connection has become even stronger: last year, Palantir had nearly $900 million in contracts with the Pentagon, and earlier the company received a U.S. Army contract worth up to $10 billion over 10 years."
https://tradersunion.com/news/editors-picks/show/1992613-pal...
However scary Oracle license auditors are though, no one conflates them with the CIA.
We're now in an era where people are actively trying to compare a contractor doing some type of IT support, to a company.
"“Our product is used, on occasion, to kill people,” Karp said in an interview with news website Axios in 2020."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwSTuDa9RY
https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/inside-palant...
We could easily say: Microsoft, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Apple, Google, openAI, Amazon & Meta are all defense contractors too
Contractors doing IT support aren't "Operators" in the tactical sense, nor agents in the LE sense, nor Officers in the IC sense, nor a Boeing/Lockheed/Leidos/etc type developing weapons.
This is just a new method to scapegoat a company