[MoltenMan]

I can't say I understand the Palantir hate. Isn't it just a database analytics SaaS? Why not hate Google as well because government employees who do things you don't like use Google? Is the Palantir hate just manufactured pointless rage or is there an actual reason behind it?

[frm88]

Palantir have the means and at least in the U. S. the call to compile a database combining personal data over many (public) agencies, making a comprehensive surveillance of a population possible: https://web.archive.org/web/20250530212437/https://www.nytim...

[BrenBarn]

I think a fair number of people who hate Palantir do hate Google too.

[max_]

Palantir is a spyware company and the CEO Alex Karp has explicitly said that thier goal is to use their tooling to create fear in people and kill people (i.e people deemed enemies of the United States)

[mlrtime]

Are you talking about the quote where he referred to people brining Fentanyl in that is killing people?

I didn't see anything wrong with his little speech.

[didntknowyou]

with a CEO that openly boast their product is great at getting data to kill people, what's there not to hate?

[int_19h]

Google at least pretends to "not be evil".

Palantir is proud of their work on the ICE contract.

[pelorat]

Because the founders are evil and should in in prison?

[tombert]

You should probably hate Google too, but I think a lot of Palantir hate comes from (well deserved) hatred for Peter Thiel, who has injected himself directly into conservative politics.

Billionaires buying their way into the political system should be hated implicitly, no matter their political affiliation.

[lithocarpus]

Palantir is more directly involved in the surveillance state and military industrial complex.

Not saying Google isn't, but it's at least not as public or blatant, and is much less of what Google does overall.

[cheraderama]

Tbh I think public and blatant is preferable.

[aprilthird2021]

Palantir makes AI to determine if who you are auto droning is a valid target or not. You can imagine why people dislike that, especially given that it's been deployed in Palestine

[pageandrew]

Would you prefer that militaries have less-capable software to make targeting decisions?

[p0w3n3d]

Everyone here is writing as if it was obvious, but I need more details. Could you please share any links on the subject?

[xboxnolifes]

Palantir might just pretty up the display of the data that is aggregated by other vendors, which source their data from other vendors, who collect their data from "opt-in" services, which technically explain how they work somewhere in a 200 page ToS. But at some point you gotta look at the sum of the incremental issues and say enough is enough.