And in reverse, you think Palentir has a transparent business model to trust with your data? I don't get why people find china more suspect than most of these billionaire led monopolies buying politicians and laws and spout paranoid gibberish about Christianity and anti Christ etc.

Both might be fundamentally evil or being, but they aren't different in danger based solely on how white they are.

What about whataboutism?

And yes an American company in cahoots with the government having the ability to snoop on traffic and turn entire networks off, while bad, is nowhere near as bad as a Chinese one having the exact same capability.

The US company and the US government are 1000x more likely to leverage their position in an antagonistic way against US customers.

Both can be bad at the same time

Right, but one is "white" and the other is "dark"