[tomComb]

I don’t know the specifics of this case, but in Canada, calls like this (all wrapped up in the flag), usually come from Canadian companies hoping for some sort of sole sourced contract that they have no business getting.

So so perhaps we should be excluding American companies at this time, but in the name of competition and openness, we should allow bids from our real allies, such as the Europeans or the Asians.

[ronsor]

"America or not" is a red herring. Palantir is the specific problem.

The kind of people running these companies don't have true allegiance to anything but their own objectives. If necessary, they'd move all operations to Europe or East Asia in a month, and you'd have "Palantir 2" under a different name with no better ethics or privacy.

Increased emphasis has to be on running things domestically with on-premises hardware. As long as the vendor is elsewhere and not subject to oversight, the risks remain.

[soupbowl]

Excluding China, I hope.

[singpolyma3]

Why?

[soupbowl]

Because they are a communist country aligned with Russia.

[protocolture]

China is the most sensible current superpower. They are barely communist at all since Deng and have a better recent track record in terms of maintaining global trade. And at least in recent years they are probably the least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities.

Oh and Premier Xi lives under your bed.

[ronsor]

> least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities

It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored.

[protocolture]

>It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored.

Havent forgotten. Its not that China got better, its that its competitors got worse.

[pphysch]

What do you think happened in Xinjiang?

[soupbowl]

China is a communist country doing plenty of bad stuff, stop shilling. Winnie the Pooh does hide under my bed though.

[dogcomplex]

Been a whole lot longer since their last genocide

[inemesitaffia]

There's an ongoing one

[gmerc]

Gaza? That’s the other ally

[graemep]

They are no longer communist. Its state controlled capitalism with a tendency to personality cult, racism, and the destruction of minorities and the systematic destruction of minority cultures.

[soupbowl]

They are run by 'The Communist Party of China' and they certainly act communist, stop shilling.

[Georgelemental]

China is more capitalist than the USA these days

[soupbowl]

Yes, The Communist Party of China does indeed do some capitalistic things as well as communist things.