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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31160697
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Main Topic: The video discusses Palantir Technologies and its increasing role in centralizing and managing US government data, raising concerns about privacy and potential abuse of power.
Key Points:
- An executive order in 2025 aimed to eliminate information silos within the government, centralizing data access.
- Palantir is heavily involved in building databases for government agencies, including immigration enforcement (Doge project), the IRS, CDC and Homeland Security.
- The speaker draws parallels to the Patriot Act and post-9/11 surveillance expansions, arguing that justifications for data collection often lead to broader applications beyond the initial stated purpose.
- Concerns are raised about the lack of oversight and potential for misuse of centralized data by Palantir, a private company.
- The video highlights the historical context of Palantir's founding, linking it to the "Total Information Awareness" initiative and figures like John Poindexter.
- The speaker emphasizes the irony of a private company now holding the kind of data that caused public outcry when the NSA was revealed to be collecting it.
Highlights:
- The Trump administration's motto: "Everyone is converting to Palantir."
- Palantir's involvement in managing sensitive data across multiple federal agencies, including health and financial information.
- The connection between Palantir's founders and the "Total Information Awareness" program.
- The comparison of Palantir's current role to the NSA's controversial data collection practices revealed by Edward Snowden.
- The video ends with a call for more attention to Palantir's activities and its potential impact on civil liberties.
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How did Snowden openly supported Russian genocidal imperialism?
Snowden is often criticizing Russian government and has shown no signs of working for them. Him being in Russia is because he is hunted by USA. If anything russia is supporting snowden
Snowden messaging is directly aligned with russian security services and their key propaganda narratives.
Look at his messaging before the full scale invasion; until the invasion he was distributing russian propaganda about how "the invasion is not happening" and some world salad about NATO and BATO.
He routinely promotes messaging supportive of russian imprialism and spreads known falsehoods.
Snowden does not critize the russian government. Don't lie.
What messaging, what are you talking about? He has been laying low for years. His latest interview was Jan31 and the only relevant thing is him denying working for Russia
Do you have any articles to back up "folding like an lawn chair","routinely promoting messaging supportive of Russian imperialism","spreading falsehoods"
Here is how you do it: Here is an article about Snowden criticizing Russian government. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sheerafrenkel/is-edward-snowden-trying-to-get-vladimir-putins-attention
So show us his "messaging" that is" directly aligned with russian security services and their key propaganda narratives". If he is promoting Russian propaganda you can find at least tweet that applies, right?
I gave you a specific example. Do a search for his tweets before Feb 24 2022 regarding Ukraine. Note how he was parroting russian official channel claims that the full scale invasion is not happening and ridiculing US security services (that correctly predicted that it is happening). Now do a search for official russian statements on this issue for this period.
You can do the searching yourself or feel free to assume that I am lying in order to discredit your little angel.
Secondly do lookup on who he promotes and what kind of things they say about Ukraine. This includes individuals claiming that everyone in Ukraine are Nazis and that Russia invasion was justified by security concerns. Both messages are openly promoted but the russians.
I stand corrected, there is an example of him criticizing the russian government. Then again, this almost from 10 years ago.
I gave you examples from the last few years.
You didn't give me a specific example, you made me look it up. And when I looked it up I found a tweet with a wrong prediction that he said was wrong 10 days later.
Insulting me is not gonna change my opinion or anyone who reads this. Backing up your claims with something more than "look it up" maybe will.
No shit, he said he was wrong after the full scale invasion began. It would be very strange for him to claim that "the invasion" is not happening after russia invaded.
Before that he was openly parroting russian narratives about how US intel was incorrect and how the invasion wasn't happening.
https://xcancel.com/Snowden/search?f=tweets&q=ukraine&since=&until=&near=
16 Feb 2022
Lying about russian attitudes. 85% (with adjustments for preference falsification) of russians support the annexation of Crimea; the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.
15 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022
He even uses the russian term "Ukraine crisis" and blames Ukrainians for russian aggression (ironic considering how "open" politics are in russia).
He routinely promotes Glenn Greenwald (who said all Ukrainians are Nazis) and David Sachs, both of whom are openly supportive of russian genocidal imperialism.
I highly doubt you'll change your opinion on Snowden. Generally speaking, it would be difficult for Snowden fanboys to admit that their hero isn't the paragon of virtue that they claim he is.