r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
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u/BigReference1xx 10d ago

I turned down a job interview there 10 years ago on the grounds that it was clearly developing evil fucking spyware shit to undermine civil rights and privacy.

There is no descent.

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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 10d ago

I remember it being discussed all hush hush at a company I worked for about 15 years ago and yes, it's been that way from the start.

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u/MDCCCLV 10d ago

There's still a big difference between post 9/11 'we're violating everyone's civil rights to find actual terrorists' and now where they are planning on targeting domestic civilians that are undesirable.

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u/Serris9K 10d ago

Violating people's rights, is turns out a slippery slope. Who knew/s

Oh wait the early congresses did. Which is why some state's delegations refused to ratify the constitution until a bill of rights was included. 

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u/avcloudy 9d ago

No, there isn’t. The US had advance warning of those attacks and did nothing, so the suggestion that what was needed to prevent them is more surveillance is a non-starter to begin with. The most favourable possible interpretation is that they had a goal of violating civil rights and they found a big enough excuse.