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Protesters blockade Palantir’s offices calling for an end to ‘totalitarian police surveillance’ as tech company aids ICE deportations

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Having first started working with ICE under Barack Obama
Lukewarm take: Every single Palantir employee should be shot, or possibly just dropped in the ocean hundreds of miles from shore
I really don't think most people appreciate just how deep and insidious the tentacles of Palantir (as the forward troops for technofascism) are.
tOtaLiTaRiAn pOLiCe SuRvEiLLaNcE
my Chinese national friend had her phone stolen in a Tier 1 city and the police consulted the CCTV footage, called the person who took it and told them to bring it in to the police station. she got it back. what's important is the class character of the state
- eh, the surveillance state isn't good even if it does have proletarian class character. they'll make mistakes, or have bigots in the police, or over-react to drugs*, get hacked by foreign actors, or a thousand other ways merely having the tool around could go wrong.
  *yes i understand the historical basis, no it doesn't make sense anymore.
  
  this feels like the "human nature" argument to me. the problems of mistakes and bad actors would seem to be good process and auditing not abandoning the technology entirely. if oversight of state power is impossible then let's just give up
- called the person who took it and told them to bring it in to the police station
  how did that conversation go, i wonder. like, "we saw you took it, give it back" or "hey, we saw you {wink} found the phone, bring it over and there's no harm done" kind or thing.

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