Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state, or as overvalued.
I am completely ok with putting multiple cameras in your (Alex’s) home, work place and also making all your emails and messages public. All for the sake of patriotism ofcourse nothing else. Afterall if you have nothing to hide why wouldn’t you be ok with people reading your emails.
This company should be dismantled and Thiel and Karp should be arrested for violations of our fourth amendment rights. Treason. Prosecute to fullest extent of the law
Patriotic nationalism is a religion that worships dirt.
Surveillance can only ever be used for oppression.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic.
Violating everyone’s 4th amendment rights is unpatriotic
But is it very fascist, and that’s so hot right now.
Punchable face.
Remind me to never let the people I live with buy a ring camera.
I moved out of my parent’s house a couple years ago because of their cameras everywhere. I had zero privacy.
More like no morals makes you rich. Evil and money are on the same side of the coin in this presidency.
What an asshole. If the same thing that makes your government powerful also makes your government evil, than supporting that thing does not make you a patriot, it makes you a fascist.
Yeah that fucking logic was so goddamn backwards and moronic I couldn’t even stomach it
Palantir is a multinational data capture and analytics company.
What exactly is he/it being patriotic to? The US? If so, the company should be banned everywhere else in the world.
What exactly is he/it being patriotic to?
To himself obviously. You can even feel the narcissism coming from his fucking face.
Murdering Palestinians with Palantir enabled kill-chains in military networking solutions.
That kind of Patriotism.
Israel
Fascism and prosperity gospel, both are a circle on the Venn diagram.
Hmmm yes, the OLIGARKHALSHUGGARE
There is nothing patriotic about spying on your neighbors, I thought we learned that several times already.
Billionaire says this. Billionaire says that. I don’t give a fuck what this parasite says. Him and others like him will face their reckoning day.
While detractors warn Palantir fuels the surveillance state, Karp argues the company exists to prevent abuses of power—by making the U.S. so technologically dominant it rarely needs to project force.
Does this make any sense at all? Even if they were able to make it the U.S. never needs to “project force”, how does that have any bearing on preventing abuse or the U.S. becoming a surveillance state.
Preventing abuse by giving them everything they want, so they don’t get mad and start abusing all of the stuff that was just given to them.
Exactly. It’s a power move to change the subject. Imagine addressing people’s issues… you’re just sitting in their domain. You have to change what people are talking about too. He doesn’t need to keep defending against X, Y, and Z if we start attacking his idea of “the greater good” and “agentic force projection.”
I used to think I couldn’t hate anyone more than Peter Thiel, but I fucking hate this guy so much.
He reports to Theil. He’s just his mouthpiece.
