Peter is gay so I can’t take anything he says seriously.
“Peter is gay so I can’t take anything he says seriously.”
I do not discredit a person for being gay. I have several gay friends and I value their intellect the same as anyone else. When they try to sell me on the lifestyle, I draw the line. Their response is usually “You just haven’t met the right guy yet.” And we laugh. If Jesus could be with Tax Collectors, then I can be around people who are gay. I try my best to follow His statement, “I am not here to judge, but to save.”
Peter was outed online by Gawker. Since it was true, he couldn’t sue. However, when Gawker published Hulk Hogan’s sex films, Peter funded the lawsuit against Gawker and Hogan won $118 million against Gawker. I find that humorous.
What bothers me is that Thiel’s Palantir does exactly what Snowden warned us against and far more.
For more info, please read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
Per Wiki:
U.S. military, intelligence, and police
Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community and United States Department of Defense, fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor (responsible for the GhostNet and the Shadow Network investigation). Gotham was used by fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, a former US federal agency which operated from 2009 to 2015.
Other clients as of 2013 included DHS, NSA, FBI, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, the Joint IED Defeat Organization and Allies. However, at the time the United States Army continued to use its own data analysis tool.[30] Also, according to TechCrunch, “The U.S. spy agencies also employed Palantir to connect databases across departments. Before this, most of the databases used by the CIA and FBI were siloed, forcing users to search each database individually. Now everything is linked together using Palantir.”
U.S. military intelligence used the Palantir product to improve their ability to predict locations of improvised explosive devices in its war in Afghanistan. A small number of practitioners reported it to be more useful than the United States Army’s Program of Record, the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-A). California Congressman Duncan D. Hunter complained of United States Department of Defense obstacles to its wider use in 2012.
Palantir has also been reported to be working with various U.S. police departments, for example accepting a contract in 2013 to help the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center build a controversial license plates database for California. In 2012 New Orleans Police Department partnered with Palantir to create a predictive policing program.
In 2014, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded Palantir a $41 million contract to build and maintain a new intelligence system called Investigative Case Management (ICM) to track personal and criminal records of legal and illegal immigrants. This application has originally been conceived by ICE’s office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), allowing its users access to intelligence platforms maintained by other federal and private law enforcement entities. The system reached its “final operation capacity” under the Trump administration in September 2017.
Palantir took over the Pentagon’s Project Maven contract in 2019 after Google decided not to continue developing AI unmanned drones used for bombings and intelligence.
In 2024, Palantir emerged as a “Trump trade” for further enforcing the law on illegal immigrants and profiting on federal spending for national security and immigration.