• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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      One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools.

      They call themselves Palantir.

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      Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn’t have enough focus on PR.

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        If Sauron had kept his objectives confined to within Germany he would have not been bad, it was just Sauron’s expansionist tendencies that made him “evil”.