Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.
Palantir has contracts across Australian defence & intelligence. Their CEO is pushing a "clash of civilisations" AI war doctrine, mass conscription and protecting elites. Australia cannot have an independent defence or foreign policy when our military is built on this platform.
Palantir wants a remilitarised West locked into a civilisational contest against its enemies. Sound familiar? This is exactly the logic driving AUKUS. We're not just buying submarines, we're buying into someone else's war with our neighbours.
Defence has handed Palantir more than $26 million in contracts since 2013, including a $7.6m deal awarded without competitive tender to its Cyber Warfare Division. Palantir staff are embedded in Defence. How the hell did Labor let these wolves inside?
Palantir is embedding itself in other Australian institutions from Coles, to Rio Tinto. Westpac, our military cyber unit, the Australian Signals Directorate, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC, which handles Aussies’ sensitive financial information.
Palantir is a cancer we should be cutting out of our Government agencies and institutions. Instead the Albanese Government and big corporations here are keen to use their mass surveillance and deeply unethical business practices for their own ends, regardless of the dangers.
Palantir is known to have provided technology that facilitated the Gaza genocide. They are facilitating mass ICE kidnappings in the US. These actions alone should trigger a review of Australian contracts. This latest manifesto only adds to the concern.
Don’t forget we just gave them top secret clearance
The Australian Greens are calling on the Govt to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out
This isn’t an academic threat to democracy, social inclusion and genuinely liberal values where people are all valued equally. It is a clear and present fascist program attached to a military political project that stifles dissent at home and kills “adverseries” abroad.
You can pick the part you think is the most dystopian from the chilling list here
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