Obviously the entire goal was to make the government dependent on their select batch of private companies which they control. Palantir is one, but don’t forget the huge order for military-grade armored Teslas. And probably many similar cases.
The lack of any reasonable response to these allegations is the actual problem
The problem is that they can’t or won’t tell the users which data from what parts of the program they sell to whom for what purpose. Instead, they just make you give up all the rights to all your data in a blanket statement. (I think they did adjust the TOS a little bit, but it’s still far from good)
Thank you. I utterly despise the cowardice of the media to call out fascists for what they are. Definitely one of the big reasons we got to where we are now.
Journalism died decades ago, and we are seeing the result today
It doesn’t matter what they love in that regard, because they are incapable of making companies do things that help consumers or the environment