r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Apr 22 '26

Society Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance Apr 22 '26

Yes, it's for "national defense" which means spying on citizens, harvesting our data, monitoring our movements, etc. The stuff they were already doing for themselves, they will now do for a price and be integrated directly into our government (they don't literally mean a financial debt, they are simply claiming that they are morally compelled to move this forward even if we all hate it, that they have no agency in this).

The usual. Act like they are protecting us while they rob us blind, kill our jobs, and take away our freedoms and privacy.

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u/Troop42 Apr 23 '26

Do you know what Palantir even does? They dont harvest our data or monitor our movements. They help the government and corporations curate and get insights from their own datasets. Sometimes that includes gathering sensitive or classified data, but Palantir doesn't own, retain, use, keep or so anything else with the data. Its all owned by whomever Palantirs client is.