Palantir sues magazine that revealed Switzerland rejected its approaches (www.ft.com)
from silence7@slrpnk.net to world@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 14:24
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H1AA6329S@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 14:40 next collapse

Can someone burn it to the ground and bar every single person responsible for these companies in a cell somewhere on the moon so they never witness the blue sky again in their life

greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org on 23 Feb 15:10 next collapse

We need to make books with their names and faces and business relationships. All the ghouls. All of them. They should never sleep another night restfully.

kent_eh@lemmy.ca on 23 Feb 18:15 collapse

We need to make books with their names and faces

Books in the style of the necromicon?

greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org on 23 Feb 18:30 collapse

We could bind them in those that are removed from the book.

justsomeguy@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 15:15 next collapse

Nonono it’s “eat the rich” not “send the rich to the moon”. We have to keep the logistics in mind here. I mean, think of the rocket fuel. In this economy no less.

Best we could do would be some form of slingshot. I reckon the g forces would kill them long before they arrive and there would be little more than a small stain left on the moon. Somebody needs to do the math on this. I’ll make the logo.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net on 23 Feb 17:41 next collapse

Mulch the rich. They make better fertilizer than food.

anomnom@sh.itjust.works on 23 Feb 18:54 collapse

Except the bio hacking vitamin nut jobs. Their remains belong in a superfund site.

AzuranAurora@piefed.ca on 23 Feb 18:54 collapse

How about shooting them out of a cannon off a very, very tall cliff? Let them be fully aware of their own mortality and impending death as the ground rapidly approaches below.

silence7@slrpnk.net on 23 Feb 15:23 next collapse

There are regular protests outside their main engineering office in Palo Alto.

EisFrei@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 17:36 next collapse

Captain Coke says it’s ok to occasionally kill people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5gC_fParbY

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 18:58 collapse

You’re burning the wrong thing. Burn every single person responsible for these companies.

gjoel@programming.dev on 23 Feb 15:19 next collapse

Well, they sued the magazine for not wanting to post their rebuttal, which they are obligated to under Swiss law. I’m not saying it’s not a little silly, but they didn’t sue them for the article.

FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 16:49 collapse

Thank you for the correction. While the headline is technically correct, it’s misleading in that it connects the suing directly to the published article.

Republik’s managing director Katharina Hemmer said Palantir had wanted the magazine to publish a very lengthy counterstatement to each article. Republik believed the proposed statements did not fairly address or rebut the reporting, she said, adding that the magazine stands by its reporting.

While right of reply actions are a common tool in Switzerland, it is unusual for a large international company to file one against a local media organisation.

Yeah, to hell with Palantir and full support to the publication.

Reygle@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 15:21 next collapse

Rules in this community restrict me from replying with an image of a wooden construction with a gravity-powered blade.

Please imagine such an assembly for my response.

PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 17:40 collapse

I love playing hangman, don’t you?

Reygle@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 17:49 collapse

That’s a career path I’d very much enjoy.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 15:24 next collapse

The old Peter Thiel Special

Wonder how many coked up rapists are involved in this story.

voodooattack@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 18:00 collapse

Relevant bit so you don’t have to dig in the article like I just did:

Billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and former Facebook board member, paid $10 million to help finance lawsuits against Gawker Media, including the Bollea lawsuit. The idea had been brought to him by Australian businessman Aron D’Souza. Thiel called his financial support of Bollea’s case "one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done."[34][35][36] Gawker had published an article in 2007 outing Thiel as gay.[37][38]

tomatolung@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 15:41 next collapse

I thought they like being the lighting rod of dispute, so why would they want to rebut the article?

silence7@slrpnk.net on 23 Feb 15:55 collapse

I think it’s more like Thiel looking for any reason whatsoever to take down Gawker.

Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip on 23 Feb 16:25 next collapse

Did i read it incorrectly or did they want to force the magazine to publish an article that follows their narrative? If so thats crazy.

Also: Swiss freedom of speech goes BRRRRRRR

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net on 23 Feb 17:40 next collapse

If the Swiss government told this magazine about rejecting Palantir, it seems like Palantir should sue the Swiss government because they are the source of the narrative.

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 19:58 collapse

Magazine reports shitty company rejected by government

Shitty company attempts to sue magazine for reporting on news

Everyone laughs at shitty company.