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Re:Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors by uniqueid on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:15AM (#24291228) 

    > My point is you should be directing your criticism to government data collection practices
I agree. It's not a binary choice, though: if I rob a bank, and you drive the getaway car, I'm clearly guilty, but you share some responsibility.

The point is that there is enough culpability to go around.

Re: my examples (in the same order)...

HSBC https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-usa-idUSKBN1E50YA

EDO MBM Technology ltd https://www.undocs.org/en/S/2018/594

IBM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

It's a reasonable position to complain about a company who knowingly enables bad behaviour of a third party, even if they don't directly carry it out.

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Re:Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors by michannne on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:12AM (#24291575)
It still doesn't make any sense.

Tell me: is the bus driver culpable if the murderer took the bus to get away from the scene of the crime?

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Re:Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors by uniqueid on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:17AM (#24292056)
In many cases: yes. It depends on whether the driver aids the criminal knowingly (eg: overheard "To my ex-husband's, driver! Can't wait to shoot him in the face"), and of the driver's own free will (eg: did not overhear "if you don't take me, I'll shoot you, too!")
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Re:Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors by michannne on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:14PM (#24295145)
Ok, if the government says, "Hey Palantir, we have this data and we need you to group everyone by religion and political affiliation", is it then also Palantir's fault if the government uses that resulting analysis for discrimination?
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