Comment by waterTanuki
4 days ago
Here's an easy one:
Their CEO is a megalomaniac who brags about "killing people"[0] and can't string together coherent sentences on live television[1]. Did I mention it's backed by Peter Thiel who is openly and actively trying to tear down the world's oldest constitutional democracy in favor of a technocratic oligarchy[2]?
[0]: https://youtu.be/G5gC_fParbY?si=isXSwbgUsdsQyGFD
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A3sGymV6kY
[2]: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/porta...
And you believe the State of Spain decided to blacklist Palentir for these reasons ? Because that was the original question of the person you are replying to.
not for these reasons alone but let's not pretend like they didn't factor them in at all
its kinda funny that HN has swapped from being an owners and their immediate supplicants (founders) forum to a workers one