Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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▲ Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine(ft.com)

102 points by sschueller 2 hours ago | 16 comments

▲ baobabKoodaa a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Fine. Thiel will just fund a Hulk Hogan lawsuit against the Swiss magazine, then.

▲ tremon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> “We welcome that the Zurich Commercial Court confirmed our right to publish a counterstatement”

Well that certainly is one way to spin having 22 of your 23 counterstatement requests dismissed by the court.

	▲	saghm 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Their right to publish multiple counterstatements is left unsettled by current law

▲ holistio an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anyone who has read The Lord of The Rings has exactly zero reasons to trust Palantir.

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emptybits 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed. The corporation name is literally (in literature!) an example of all-seeing surveillance tools causing harm when (not if) they fall into evil hands.

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DoktorDelta 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Crazy that there's a weapons company called Anduril as well

	▲	nickff 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Why? Naming a weapons company after Aragorn's sword makes sense. "The Daily Beast" on the other hand is a rather cynical name...
	▲	scns 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Creative people seem to be rather pacifistic. Warmongers seem less so, they have to "borrow" from the creative ones.

▲ Yokohiii 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wait europe doesn't want to buy spy tech that spies on europe? Shocking.

▲ sschueller 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://archive.ph/lXw7j

▲ catlikesshrimp an hour ago | parent [-]

If Cannot resolve archive.ph host

Access the .is domain https://archive.is/lXw7j

internet archive cannot resolve either

▲ tremon an hour ago | parent [-]

archive.ph works fine for me. Resolves to

  168.222.241.49 archive.ph
  2a09:b280:fe00:5a:d197:eab6:9aa0:f22 archive.ph

	▲	akerl_ 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Archive.ph returns different results to Cloudflare’s resolvers intentionally, preventing Cloudflare DNS users from resolving it correctly.

▲ zzzeek 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Palantir, whose software is widely used by US defence and intelligence agencies, has faced growing scrutiny in parts of Europe as governments reassess their dependence on American technology companies.

I think it's great. Europe and other regions will be building out their own tech stacks, decreasing global dependence on big US players like AWS and Palantir, creating lots more jobs for programmers and much broader ecosystems for doing things.

▲ mistrial9 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group

oh that is clever writing

	▲	tokai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.