Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-ice-dhs-alex-pretti-killing-workers-slack-minneapolis

43 Comments

  1. >In a Saturday thread on Slack discussing Pretti’s killing, Palantir workers questioned both the ethics and the business logic of continuing the company’s work with ICE.

    Who the fuck these employees think the founders of Palantir are or where do they stand politically? I mean, you sign up to work for a company named after a magical orb that was coopted by the Dark Lord Sauron and that no character in the books should ever dare to use, and you are asking these questions?

    Don’t people research their employer before they signup anymore?

  2. And IBM defended it’s work with the Nazi’s, it’s what these soulless sociopathic corporations do because they’re run by fucking parasites.

  3. “It’s necessary to scare enemies, and on occasion, kill them.” – Alex Karp, Palentir CEO

  4. I’m surprised they bothered to even comment defensively, are they not an openly MAGA company who took their name from a villainous cursed object from a fantasy novel series? Since when has Palantir not been proud to work with right wing extremists?

  5. Honestly, feel little empathy for palantir employees. None of their work can be classified as morally good, let alone morally grey. If employees gave a real fuck, they wouldn’t have worked there in the first place

  6. SuitableEmployment56 on

    What are these people expecting?, you are working with a company that sells spyware that doesn’t give a shit about morals

  7. chocolateboomslang on

    These people . . .

    You work at a company named after a fantasy surveillance device that is known to be unreliable because it can be manipulated by powerful evil forces.

    Get a clue.

  8. If someone can watch Alex Karp and think he’s a normal person, that someone is not a normal person.

  9. Just slick PR. Every employee at this evil company knew exactly what they were signing up for.

  10. “Hey honey, how was your day?”

    “We started integrations for the new Alexa One Ring, but some filthy hobbitses threw the servers in a volcano. At least my Uruk-KPIs are solid going into my 1:1 with the Dark One.”

  11. but guys…. think of all the money we’ll take from immigrants teeth?! No you dont get any. Why would you ask that?

  12. Anyone working for palantir is already complicit. It’s no secret what the mission of this evil company is. You should feel uncomfortable that your work is repressing and killing people for speaking their mind and standing up to abuses of power worldwide. Yes, you are the baddies.

  13. If you work for Palantir or one of Musk’s companies you are fully supporting Nazi fascist dictators and are complicit in their many crimes against humanity.

  14. Who woulda thought a company named after an all seeing stone used by an evil wizard, and evil necromancer to spy on the good people, and watch their armies decimate the weak, was gonna do evil shit?

  15. Society should be looking at employees of companies like this (Palantir, Flock, Clearview, AXON, etc) in the same light as the current view of employees of ICE. They are willing cogs in the mechanism to collapse democracy.

    I’m sure I’m on a list now. Hi Mr. Karp.

  16. >Hey wait, we’re the bad guys!!

    Okay glad you noticed but how tf did you end up there to begin with

  17. Lost_Condition_9562 on

    It’s kind of amazing/depressing that a company named after a magical orb used by Sauron is about as comedically evil as you’d think it would be

  18. Bugatti_Royale on

    if your are working for this electronic Stazi I will not hire you ever. don’t come knocking on other tech company’s doors for employment. You chose to stay and participate in this.

  19. Evil company, their tech was being used in Israel to have their ai drones kill civilians including children

  20. It is like signing up to be a stormtrooper and being surprised to find out the emperor is not a good dude.

  21. if you work for or with palantir, you’re an active fascist…

    don’t want to be called that? find a different employer.

  22. Peter Thiel can go duck him self! He bankrolled Trump and he gets paid to spy on all Americans! Also he most likely he murdered his partner.

  23. Look, just because a guy has a god-given right to eat a hotdog while cheating on his wife with his secretary, doesn’t mean he can’t ally with an agency that’s working hard to upend your civil liberties.

  24. No-Performance2990 on

    Their founder literally believes he is an antichrist sent to speed up the end of the world, and they expect ethical reasoning?