Tech employees protest in front of Palantir HQ
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So, is this just an attempt to smear Thiel by implying his company is going to "build Trump’s Muslim registry", and that Trump is indeed going to build one? Smear by association?
> "Being forced to collaborate with the U.S. government on large-scale human rights abuses is the first time I’ve ever seen that made high-end tech workers unionize"
What collaboration? I thought this was speculative "concern"? and who forces tech workers to do anything anyway?
Also, let's not talk about "tech workers unioniz[ing]" on the basis of just 50 people...
> one of the protestors and the founder of Frame Shift, a consulting firm training startups on inclusion and diversity
..leftist tech-workers, with possible interests of their own
> Trump pledged he would ban Muslim immigrants and establish a registry while in office
Did he? Maybe TC should clarify these claims, and what they mean. He pledged nothing wrt a registry though.
> such a database smacked of the Holocaust
which is why the idea was invented, and repeatedly reported, by the media.
> [Palantir] had not been quite as vocal.
Guilt through silence?
> Palantir’s Alex Karp eventually did come out against the building of a Muslim registry last week
Actually, no. Something actually substantial, and it doesn't support the premise of the protests, and the article. Nice weaseling: "eventually", as if there is some requirement to satisfy the press within some time limit.
> There’s a difference between telling the press that and pledging to never do it.
Beg next time, Alex! Get down on you knees! The left must be satisfied!!
> what measures it would take to ensure it would not be making a Muslim registry
Are you fucking serious!?!...
Having said that, you are questioning things that have been public knowledge for a while.
What is public knowledge worth?
"3. the information system which informs the collective is filtered by a quality control mechanism that relies on individuals to a high degree.
Lanier argues that only under those circumstances can a collective be smarter than a person. If any of these conditions are broken, the collective becomes unreliable or worse."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Criticism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
If you are talking about the "Muslim Registry":
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/15/s-f-mayor-opp...
"Look, I’m not going to rule out anything. I wouldn’t — we’re not going to have a registry based on a religion." -- Priebus
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/11/20/priebus-were-not-g...
If you don't like breitbart:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/16/13649764/t...
"it seems Trump is trying to say that he was previously talking about illegal immigration and a wall -- not a registry for Muslims. And he seems taken aback by stories that said he wanted such a database."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/nov/24/...
One example of reporting that buries the lede:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/barack-obam...
They wrote a comprehensive explanation of their goals, and now their cause is on the front page of HN
They've already developed the tech that the government is likely to use, have millions of dollars of federal contracts, and have done very little to convince the public that they won't use their software and data for targeting muslims or some other group.
It's not about setting up a database, it's about populating that database, and it's taken years for Palantir to develop the data pipeline, analysis and infrastructure to do that.