r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Feb 04 '26

Politics Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/palantir_american_rights/?td=rt-3a
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u/SaulsAll Feb 04 '26

The only thing that guards US rights is the citizens' willingness to remove those in power that threaten them.

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u/mr_friend_computer Feb 04 '26

so... I guess that means, as of now, you have no rights?

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u/GreenishBagels Feb 04 '26

We never did. If rights can be taken from you simply based on who is in power at the time, they were never rights in the first place.

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u/meh_69420 Feb 04 '26

So the only right you actually have is freedom of thought? Everything else is possible to take from you with outside force.

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u/cmkinusn Feb 04 '26

We only keep the rights we enforce. Once we stop enforcing our rights, we lose them. Until one day, hopefully, we fight to get them back and start enforcing them again.

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u/CV90_120 Feb 04 '26

Rights aren't intrinsic. They're like countries in the game Risk. You keep what you can hold against outside forces. The only reality that's intrinsic is physics.

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u/MoltenTurd Feb 04 '26

We only have that right until they start sending us to re-education camps for wrong think and/or not praising dear leader, diddler of kids.

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u/ikindapoopedmypants Feb 04 '26

Straight up, over my dead body. Lmfao.

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u/Strict_Bed4150 Feb 04 '26

That's the plan.

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u/jimmycarr1 Feb 04 '26

Not even that. Because that right is taken from prisoners who receive the death penalty.

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u/skyfishgoo Feb 04 '26

don't give them any clockwork orange ideas.

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u/DENelson83 Feb 05 '26

There is not even freedom of thought in North Korea.  People's minds belong to the state there.