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Even the article contains the right info even though the title is misleading. They aren't suing because they published the article. They are suing because the magazine refuses to publish their reply, which the magazine is legally required to publish according to swiss law.
I'm not defending palantir but no need to invent reasons to be mad at them.
Your behaviour is indistinguishable from that of someone who is defending them, since you're arguing their side of the lawsuit. The magazine is legally required to publish a reply which is "succinct and confine[s] itself to the subject matter of the contentious representation," not any given reply that Palantir wants to make. As quoted at several removes, "Republik’s managing director Katharina Hemmer said Palantir had wanted the magazine to publish a very lengthy counterstatement to each article. Republik believed the proposed statements did not fairly address or rebut the reporting"
the fuck is wrong with you
lol
Yeah, why should you shy away from being as unfair and mean as our common adversary.
To be frank i'm with @lauha@lemmy.world here. We shouldn't comit the same crimes evil corp ist guilty of. And we should advocate truth and transparency.
Actually @flowerysongs@awful.systems put it into context quite nicely.
me telling you to go fuck yourself makes me exactly as unfair and mean as Palantir, a Peter Thiel company specializing in genocide and mass surveillance. yes hmm I see
you and your friend can both fuck off with the type of truth and transparency where you claim to not be defending fucking Palantir of all things while uncritically parroting their words. nobody fucking needs that in any context. you don’t in fact have to hand it to the fascists on this or any other point.
How often is section 28g of the civil code of Switzerland invoked?
It's still a SLAPP suit. Palantir has massively more PR resources, and if they wished to actually respond to the content of the Republik piece, they could do so.
What they are doing is trying to send a message to future reporters - report negatively on us, and we will make it very very expensive for you to respond to legal challenges.
OTOH is a huge self-own. Reporters live to get attacked by giant faceless corporations. No-one outside a small section of the Swiss reading public would have even heard of this story before Palantir decided to go nuclear.