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0 pointscrimsoneer15h ago0 comments

At the risk of stating the obvious, Black Cube is an actual private intelligence firm that sells spy services [1], while Palantir is a software firm that sells software (even if that software is used by intelligence, gov, etc). You can go spin up a free Foundry instance [2] and test it, and it doesn't have secret buttons to imprison people.

[1] https://www.blackcube.com/

[2] https://www.palantir.com/developers/

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frm8833m ago

From Black Cube's website:

Our Code of Ethics was developed together with Prof. Asa Kasher, an internationally acclaimed scholar specialising in philosophy and ethics, who wrote the Code of Ethics for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

From Wikipedia on Prof. Kasher:

Kasher states explicitly that it is justified to kill a Palestinian child who is in the company of a hundred 'terrorists', because the 'terrorists' might kill children in Sderot. But in reality, it was a case of killing a hundred children who were in the company of one 'terrorist'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Kasher

Ethics code. Got it.

ks204815h ago

Yes, they are master hackers - they even hacked the scrollbar on their web page.

kennywinker15h ago

And yet both these technologies are being used to subvert democracy and suppress opposition… almost like it doesn’t need to be fully automated fascism to be fascistic.

jschrf15h ago

Kind of them to put the evil right in the name.

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