Downright #Evil Palantir

Peter #Thiel, one of 1st prominent #Trump supporters, known for declaring #freedom & #democracy are incompatible

It's named after the seeing stones (palantíri) from The Lord of the Rings: magical crystals that let their owners observe distant places

Palantir makes same promise:

- Enable remote monitoring of data to reveal patterns, links that would otherwise remain hidden

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland

#privacy #oppressive #dystopian #authoritarianism #surveillance