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The analogy seems apt; weapons dealers don't give warlords armies (if they did, they'd be called mercenaries.) They give the armies of warlords the tools they need to be more effective. The violent acts, killing people or holding PII, are still performed by the warlord's organization, but does that excuse the people selling the tools used?
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I just don’t think that complaining about a tech company when what you actually dislike is what governments or other organizations are doing is going to impact anything. But Palantir has been the “tech boogieman” since before I even left in 2014, so it probably always will be. It is admittedly easier to blame a smaller tech company as a scapegoat than try to address the l…
Or you can do both. You might as well suppose that people are critical of the mercenary company Blackwater because they want to avoid criticizing America foreign policy and military exploits. I don't think that's accurate at all, it's been my experience that people who are critical of one are very often critical of the other as well.
Similarly, it's been my experience that people critical of Palintar are also critical of the organizations and governments who use the services of Palintar.