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.
Violating everyone’s 4th amendment rights is unpatriotic
Remind me to never let the people I live with buy a ring camera.
I moved out of my parents house a couple years ago because of their cameras everywhere. I had zero privacy.
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
Gross
I used to think I couldn’t hate anyone more than Peter Thiel, but I fucking hate this guy so much.
There is nothing patriotic about spying on your neighbors, I thought we learned that several times already.
Patriotism would be auto finding violations of the constitution and bringing up legal action for every one.
Disgusting scumbag. Fuck off and die.
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.
Coked up like a child dizzy on lemonade
Builds army of surveillance tools
“Stop calling it surveillance” These people would be so funny if they didn’t have such a negative impact on millions of people
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.”
What? Criminal scum complains about being called criminal scum?
