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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American

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Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American

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    Well, clearly this is gonna be something that every republican will oppose, right? Riiiight? The government tracking citizens with a database?? My conspiracy theory neighbor bitches about this all the time. He’s gonna oppose this, right???

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      2006’es Alex Jones would have gone mental over this.

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        Something something accusing their opposition of doing the thing that they either are currently doing, or 100% would be doing if they had the opportunity.

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      Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.

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      It will be used to track who owns a gun!

      Maybe not, but the fact that it could, should get them to oppose it.

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    Already not a fan of Palantir, this is pretty bad news

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      I think nobody is a fan of Palantir. In a truly democratic society people would never allow such a company to collect all your data.

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    Maybe better to link the source article on this one.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

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      Here’s an archive link of that NY Times article: https://archive.is/tXBRJ

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    Tyrans

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    Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir’s track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it’s probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the ‘two-year’ contract.

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    Databases aren’t fireproof. This seems like a good reason to kick things off.

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    Afaik this is basically what the NSA’s Prism is.

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      In what world is that even a plausible outcome of this news? This feels non-sequitur by its pure absurdity. If they had a list of 1000 things they can do with this database, that would not even be on the list.

      I understand you are talking about something which either interests you or is a cause you care about, but we’re talking about monumental governmental surveillance by a president many scholars are calling a fascist. This is not the time nor the place to discuss such matters and trying to have that conversation could easily be read as dismissing the plentiful and obvious concerns around privacy and safety of the American public.

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        I’ve seen that Dan guy with some astronomically stupid takes, always funny to see his actual doofus face next to them

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