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Like catching 'potential' terrorists, you mean?

Sorry for the snark, but I call BS on glorification of a technology company that so far has not done anything but strip away almost everyone's privacy.

Fat comfort in that.

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Like these 'potential' terrorists : "Nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twenty-somethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years."

Is this the narrative that needs to be sold now?

You should have also put terrorists in quotes. We already know that the NSA is going after drug crimes.

To be fair, the DEA is going after drug crimes using secret information supplied by the NSA, and lying about it.

There are some drug crimes which actually are terrorism. In Mexico, the cartels/Zetas/etc. are an existential threat, and that's spilling over. There are towns in the US where MS-13 is a locally existential threat, at least within immigrant communities. The drug gangs in the inner cities in the 1970s-1990s were, too. I'd be ok with some use of some military force (intelligence, or just straight up infantry and MPs) in certain counter-drug terrorism contexts.

(I say this as someone who is in favor of immediate legalization of MJ, and decriminalization of all other drugs, with extensive treatment available for addiction or sub-optimal drug use.)

I think you mis-interpreted what I meant. I don't think the article glorified this technology and that toward the last half it offered a balanced viewpoint. Regardless, I don't think we quite have to hit the panic button yet, but if we don't start actually improving our world by inventing technology to protect our human rights, they'll be gone before we even have a chance to really panic.

Do you really not like reading, or is it just easier to maintain your bad mood that way?

I'm not saying they're a saving grace, nor that there aren't potential/real problems with what they're doing, but your comment is just patently false.

http://www.missingkids.com/partners/Palantir

Do you really not like reading, or is it just easier to maintain your bad mood that way?

It is the reading, or rather the reading-between-the-lines, that makes my mood bad.

Now get off my lawn.

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