Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.

• Akrenion@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And yet governments are trying to buy palantir access. There should be more opposition.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, the government’s big shift from “spy on our citizens” to “create a private corporation and pay them to spy on our citizens” was largely driven by public scrutiny. Governments realized that people were watching what they did online. And rather than stop encroaching on peoples’ privacy, the various governments simply shifted towards hiring private contractors to do it for them.

    A giant “Spy Agency To Definitely Spy On All Of Our Own Citizens: Fifty Bajillion Dollars” line item on the government budget looks bad when lawmakers go to vote on it. But that same fifty bajillion dollars allocated to “Private Government Contractor 19452046” looks a lot better on paper.

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  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly. Palantir is American terrorism and infiltration.

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• KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Uh… No the bankers got all pardoned and all agencies pardoned nothing was changed

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