Those companies have extremely well developed propaganda machines. They have to sell their technology and products as benefits to governments (i.e. society) and solutions to chaos (i.e. crime and terrorism), and they have extremely well refined language to describe themselves in positive term. If you don’t look past the company line, it’s easy to believe that the skeptics and warnings are all just FUD from haters, especially when the propaganda pays your mortgage.
Then Palantir goes and publishes an actual fascist manifesto…
The thing about propaganda is it works on the leadership, too. Eventually the fascists always take the mask off because they forget why they were wearing it in the first place.
Those companies have extremely well developed propaganda machines. They have to sell their technology and products as benefits to governments (i.e. society) and solutions to chaos (i.e. crime and terrorism), and they have extremely well refined language to describe themselves in positive term. If you don’t look past the company line, it’s easy to believe that the skeptics and warnings are all just FUD from haters, especially when the propaganda pays your mortgage.
Then Palantir goes and publishes an actual fascist manifesto…
The thing about propaganda is it works on the leadership, too. Eventually the fascists always take the mask off because they forget why they were wearing it in the first place.