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Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" (arstechnica.com)

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago

Anybody who's surprised by this is part of the problem.

If an organization possesses influence or power that can be abused, then it inevitably will be abused. It doesn't matter how conscientious people are or how many safeguards are put in place - loathsome, power-hungry pieces of shit will angle for position in the organization, and sooner or later some will get through, and they'll immediately start shifting the organization to accommodate them, which is to say, to accommodate loathsome, power-hungry pieces of shit. And it's all downhill from there.

I'm not an anarchist by accident.