[jessaustin]

USA government has a number of unfortunate qualities. Of course we should oppose these qualities in many different ways (certainly not limited to protest). We're not disagreeing with that. But, we can't draw a bright line between a never-over-several-decades-profitable "company" and the secret agencies who are its only clients and whose personnel is separated from its own by an unseen revolving door. Palantir is not clearly separate from those agencies. Protesting Palantir takes nothing away from effective opposition to abusive government authority.

At this level of the thread, we know that you don't like protesting Palantir. Unfortunately you haven't given us any other reason to think such protests are problematic.

[emteycz]

I did, but once again: IMHO this makes people think (a) private business is the problem, and leads them to believe more regulation and control is necessary, which is the opposite of what's needed to solve this problem of the state overreaching in control and regulation.