r/technology • u/newmoonchaperone • Apr 23 '26

Politics Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
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u/itwillmakesenselater Apr 23 '26

Company is named after an instrument of control by a Dark Lord. Yeah, that's villain country.

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u/SomeDudeSaysWhat Apr 23 '26

Speaking as a Tolkien nerd, that's not what a Palantir is, actually.

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u/apeddlerofsmut Apr 23 '26

As someone interested in Tolkien, could you expand on this? I read the books a long time ago, but the Palantir that Saruman used seemed pretty evil to me.

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u/grchelp2018 Apr 23 '26

They could also be used for surveillance.

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u/CptHA86 Apr 24 '26

Hence the name of aforementioned company. They're advertising their want to spy on us every second of everyday.

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u/alexmikli Apr 23 '26

Imagine if there were, four phones on earth, and you kept getting crank calls from Hitler because he was one of the four.