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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by lm28469 »

midlander wrote: post #797
EngineerUSA wrote: post #186

Palantir is interesting. Founded by a closeted German, run by an Israeli operative, and a 3rd arm of the federal gov. I wish we could prosecute it in my lifetime for the numerous violations of privacy it undertakes, but the world does not work that way. The rich enjoy private jets subsidized by our hard-earned taxes, while violating ideals held by our Founding fathers (for what would Thiel or the current CEO know abo…

The irony of a post about Palantir working with ICE devolving into xenophobia about the founders of Palantir.

tbh it's hard not to dunk on a gay christian fundamentalist and a coked up israeli boot licker POC teaming up together to deport people, so many layers of meta and jokes to be made

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by lm28469 »

midlander wrote: post #807
koakuma-chan wrote: post #792

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where do their loyalties lie? In Germany and Israel?

You think that people who were not born in America cannot be trusted / are not moral?

Just the ones talking about the antichrist and making lists of undesirables.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by direwolf20 »

JuniperMesos wrote: post #687
phatfish wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most users here are American, have you seen what is happening in America? The funny (sad) thing is all the hot takes about the UK or Europe being a "police state" because porn is being blocked for kids, or persistent abuse on social media actually has repercussion (as it does in the real world already). Meanwhile ICE are murdering US citizens in the streets. Turns out American "free speech" doesn't prevent an authori…

Lucy Connolly was imprisoned for about a year in the UK for posting an inflammatory anti-immigration social media post which was deemed illegal under UK law, and is currently being threatened ( https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2157938/lucy-connolly-pris... ) with being returned to jail for posting social media content attacking the current UK government. This is hardly the only example of the UK, or other Anglophone…

What did the post say?

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by mrmlz »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #735
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #535

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No and it never has It only works for people the state expects significant amounts of money from (taxes don’t count) Don’t expect a government to help you unless you’re one of its larger donors

Depends where, I think. Where your neighbors are mostly honorable, it mostly works. There are plenty of nice neighborhoods, and no shortage of bad ones either, sadly.

It has worked great in Sweden until a decade or so ago! Depends on the population and general sense of community.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by fn-mote »

jorts wrote: post #507
neilv wrote: post #287

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That questionable-sounding stunt by the media outlet wasn't comparable: Google/Alphabet knows much more about individuals than addresses, salary, and political donations. Google/Alphabet knows quite a lot about your sentiments, what information you've seen, your relationships, who can get to you, who you can get to, your hopes and fears, your economic situation, your health conditions, assorted kompromat, your moveme…

It was probably a decade ago and I recall using something within Google that would tell you about who they thought you were. It profiled me as a middle eastern middle aged man or something like that which was… way off.

The idea that Google’s lack of knowledge of you a decade ago is somehow related to what they know today is naive. Dangerously naive, I would say. Ad targeting technology (= knowledge about you) is shocking good now.

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Post by spicyusername »

arius wrote: post #703

Wake up Americans, your country is becoming a shitshow.

The problem seems to be that half of America voted for this, twice, and will continue cheering this kind of outcome on, despite any amount of evidence it is harmful.

Something, something, even dumber than that.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by stephen_g »

lm28469 wrote: post #790
simonw wrote: post #2

Any time I see people say "I don't see why I should care about my privacy, I've got nothing to hide" I think about how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power. The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases. This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agen…

> The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases. I'd say the classic example is when a small german man with a mustache starts looking in religious registries to find the address of certain types of people

It’s usually not a great example because it’s basically the one thing that is “never going to happen here”. Normally the one about abusive law enforcement offices stalking ex-partners (or helping their buddies stalk their ex-partners) is better because it happens fairly regularly.

We really are in unprecedented times when it’s looking like the big one could happen in the United States though…

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Post by 20after4 »

assimpleaspossi wrote: post #793
dfdf2 wrote: post #619

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Eric Schmidt the rapist? https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37457418/eric-schmidt-mistress... He's got a whole lotta people doing over-time trying to bury this.

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Abusive relationships aren't always easy to escape. Even more so when the partner is extremely rich and powerful.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by ExoticPearTree »

cauch wrote: post #407
libpcap wrote: post #308

Immigration laws, like any other laws, need to be enforced, right?

A lot of people who support the current US government do not want the laws to be enforced, they just want to see people who look brown or foreigners to be deported, regardless of if they are in the US legally or illegally. The immigration laws are saying that we should stop illegal immigration, but respect the legal immigration. And because of that, it means that each case should be carefully treated to discover if t…

@cauch: let me ask you this: how do you weed out the illegals besides asking for proof or citizenship or proof of a passport visa that you are in the US legally?
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