Eric Arthur Blair ⃰ Is Spinning in His Grave Fast Enough to Power All of Dubuque, Iowa

At the latest reporting of (obscene) profits for the cyber-stalking as a service company Palantir, its CEO declared the company a, "Guardian of Americans' rights."

Mad as a Panrovian monk, he is.

Palantir had a whopper of a Q4, showing accelerating revenue growth, beating Wall Street's profit estimates, and enjoying a share price jump of as much as 11% during pre-market trading on Tuesday before coming back down to earth.

At such a triumphal moment, it was striking that the company was forced on the defensive, not least for its involvement with the controversial US agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which began in 2011. ICE has drawn criticism for its activities in Minnesota over the last month after its agents shot and killed two American citizens while bystanders captured the events on video.

As it announced its booming financial results, Palantir was prepared. CEO Alex Karp told CNBC: "If you are critical of ICE, you should be out there protesting for more Palantir. Our product, actually, in its core, requires people to conform with Fourth Amendment data protection."

The technical term for the above term is bullsh%$.  (I miss January so much right now)

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On an earnings call, Karp said the company's software inherently instills the protection of individual rights.

"From the beginning, we have stuck to our very strong values of expanding what we believe is the noble side of the West ... meaning domestic institutions, intelligence institutions [are] essentially taking an incatenation of the Fourth Amendment, which is completely represented by our pipelining, Foundry, and impregnating institutions with it so that every institution that uses our product is doing it within conformity of the law and the ethics of America," he said.

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"The construction of such a platform, one that reflects our ethical commitments, should, of course, be a rallying cry for progressives and critical thinkers across the political spectrum who profess to be interested in advancing the values of the Fourth Amendment," he said.

To correct the late, great, Douglas Adams, the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks will not be the first against the wall when the revolution comes, they have to wait in line until this guy is done.

 

^*Better known by his pen name, George Orwell.