<story><title>The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burger_moon</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kinda interesting how people are just now realizing that all the big tech companies are government contractors and not this imaginary utopia of &amp;#x27;making the world a better place&amp;#x27; they were sold on.&lt;p&gt;Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all US gov&amp;#x27;t contractors. It&amp;#x27;s hilariously ironic seeing the political views of the employees suddenly clashing with their employers views of making money as if it&amp;#x27;s a new thing.</text></comment>
<story><title>The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kd3</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just ICE but the entire government that is a problem. I personally stopped accepting any work from any government a few years ago. Once you realize what government is, there&amp;#x27;s no going back.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The State […] is an anti-social institution, administered in the only way an anti-social institution can be administered, and by the kind of person who, in the nature of things, is best adapted to such service [a psychopath]. Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class. As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.&amp;quot; -
Albert J. Nock in “Our Enemy, The State”</text></comment>