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Re:The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE und... by pjc50 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:45PM (#20770611)
We should not allow the observation that some states collapse into lawlessness to turn into a blind "government is bad" attitude that ends with people being held hostage by government-sized private companies. The state can be lawless, but escaping lawlessness is impossible without the efforts of a state.
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Re:The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE und... by kd3 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:03PM (#20771337)
Well it's more the fact that government exists by the use of force and coercion, which makes it a violent and basically terrorist organization. And that is so dispite having laws. Laws != morality.
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