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Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/

"PARIS (AP) — French company Capgemini announced Sunday it is selling off its subsidiary that provides technology services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during global scrutiny of ICE agents’ tactics in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown."

#Capgemini #NoTechForICE #HumanRights #ICE
https://apnews.com/article/france-ice-contract-capgemini-cd7e4c2625fd8e1ca2fa54b67c5c43e4

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115984608178281822

This is why we demand #NoTechForICE

Hootsuite.com promised to cut ties with ICE in 2020. Now they’re seeking billion-dollar contracts to help ICE monitor social media. 🚩 As a B Corp, they should protect rights—not build surveillance tools. Tell them to drop the deal: #NoTechForICE https://openmedia.org/NoTech4Ice-mtd @OpenMediaOrg

No tech for ICE! #NoTechForICE
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools/

I just read a piece about #Palantir in the latest issue [June 2025] of the #DSA newsletter, "In These Times." A very timely piece indeed!

Palantir and American #TechnoFascism

by #AlbertoToscano

"A new recruitment campaign appeared on the elite U.S. college campus last April. In schools such as Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Penn, posters glued to bus stops, with black background, issued a disturbing warning: the time has come for reckoning for the West, before accusing most technology companies of not considering the national interest when they decide what should be built. On the contrary, Palantir, the defense contractor specializing in data analysis and responsible for this recruitment campaign, stated that he does not merely build technological products - to guarantee the future of the United States, but, in fact, to dominate.

"The implicit message of advertising reflects the conviction of Palantir's leaders, including founder #PeterThiel and Chief Executive Officer #AlexKarp, that Silicon Valley's real mandate is to consolidate the military supremacy of the United States and the West, a nostalgic reaction to the happy days of the Cold War and its merger between state, engineering and capital.

"In this version of technological #nationalism, the make America great again translates into an impulse for dominance, of course, against foreign adversaries but also against the "Woke capital," effeminate consumerism and a university system dedicated to social justice and diversity (the Palantir posters were published together with a new initiative that invites talented high school students to "judge the indoctrination" of higher education in exchange for a four-month Palantir scholarship).

"Palantir has strong reason to organize his recruiting career. Although critics retangled when their shares plummeted briefly after Trump's tariff announcement, Palantir's stock market capitalization currently exceeds $270 billion, more than triple its value last September. In addition, the company's ability to establish high-level contacts among national security personnel has generated a series of government contracts linked to the acceleration of #Trumpist #authoritarianism.

"Palantir has already collaborated with #ElonMusk's #SpaceX and the AI and robo robotor #Anduril (another tech company with the theme of The Lord of the Rings led by another #FarRight businessman) to begin building Trump's #GoldenDome, an American version of #Israel's Iron Dome air defense system. It is also working with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) to create an app programming interface that will allow #HomelandSecurity to track tax data for more undocumented taxpayers to expel.

"In April, Palantir, who has long boasted of his collaborations with military, police and border agents, won a $29.8 million contract with #ICE to improve his #dystopian Immigration Lifecycle Operating System. That is, it is intended to provide molecular and real-time information on immigrants that the government seeks to monitor, arrest and expel. The company is preparing to review ICE's investigative case management system to better track target populations across hundreds of data categories, from eye color to tattoos, job management and social security numbers.

"Palantir's #fascist research and development does not stop at the borders of the United States: the company and Karp have proclaimed their ideological and material support for Israel, which carries out the genocide in Gaza. In January 2024, during an extraordinary board meeting in Tel Aviv, the company announced its strategic alliance with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, providing it with technology for war, possibly including its Artificial Intelligence Platform, sold as a way to incorporate language models-fueled chatbots into real-time decision-making processes in war zones. The company's leadership has made it clear that its conception of Western supremacy implies the uncompromising defense of Zionism abroad and far-right nationalism in the country.

"In all this, it has become clear that Palantir represents the alliance between the technology industry and authoritarian nationalism much more than Musk's clumsy Nazi salutes, sensationalist pronatalism or trolling 'dark #MAGA.' As technology academic Jathan Sadowski recently wrote, 'From the beginning, Palantir's purpose has been to provide... the ontological plan to fascism, helping his ideological objectives come true materially.

"In other words, Palantir is building the digital infrastructure to integrate the multiple forms of violence and state control on which contemporary #authoritarianism is based: from the software needed for mass deportations to AI used in wars against #ColonizedPeoples.

"But Palantir not only builds to dominate, he also wants to tell us why. Less than a month after Trump's inauguration, Karp published his book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, written with the head of Palantir's affairs, Nicolas W. - Zamiska. The book is a strange and prolific mix of neoconservative texts, pseudo-erudite reflections and corporate pamphlets (and apparently shows strong signs of possible use of artificial intelligence).

"In its attempt to unite the praise of Silicon Valley engineers with a strident demand for rearmament from the West, The Technological Republic draws a vision of the future in which the intuitions about creativity, taken from the study of swarms of bees or Jackson Pollock's paintings, are put at the service of ensuring a broad spectrum technological dominance. At the centre is the regret that a compact liberal elite has exhausted the moral courage and technological dynamism of the West just as it faces the revolution of artificial intelligence and emerging Chinese hegemony. After the vague rhetoric of the cultural war, it is not difficult to perceive Karp and Palantir's angry reaction to the #resistance organized by technological workers through campaigns such as '#NoTechForIce or #TechWorkersCoalition' to the project of building to dominate.

"Just as Karp has underlined his company's commitment to Israeli supremacy, so does his book speak of a 'left' chased by the spectre of #Palestine. The executive director of a company that reaps huge profits from surveillance and data extraction systems, aimed at expelling dissidents and undocumented people, Karp writes with contempt of those who want to remain anonymous during Israel's war camps in #Gaza. Quote a student who says, 'If I give my name, I lose my future.' With an astonishing lack of self-consciousness he comments: 'The protective veil of #anonymity could [...] rob this generation of the opportunity to develop an instinct for true mastery of an idea, of the reward of victory in the public square, as well as the costs of defeat.

"This is the same book that, in a variant of the conspiracy theory of cultural Marxism, Edward Said's Orientalism is the main culprit of the emasculation of an academic world built around Western civilization and, therefore, as one more factor in the hesitant technological supremacy of the United States. As Karp states, the book of the Palestinian-American critic has destabilized - a whole way of being an academic in the university establishment, has been the vehicle through which the academic world would be remade.

"The Technological Republic reveals that contemporary #TechnoNationalism and #TechnoMilitarism have nothing to do with building infrastructure for state control and violence, but also with the promotion of an indistinguishable ideology of those who try to sell you something. Palantir reaps benefits not only from the way fear of migrants, artificial intelligence, the upcoming wars waged by drone swarms, mobilizes the resources of governments, but also from speech and uproar. His company's stock market capitalization has quadrupled in the past year, far surpassing revenue-derived growth. This vacuum is filled with speculation, that is, with words and ideas about the future. The future Karp sells is one in which the alternative is ruin (China geopolitical supremacy) or (American) dominance. Behind all the complaints of The Technological Republic about the crisis of confidence in the West, what Karp really wants us to believe is in Palantir, that is, the old business of war, racism and repression marketed through a brilliant new interface."

[Original - in Spanish]
https://ficciondelarazon.org/2025/05/14/alberto-toscano-palantir-y-el-tecno-fascismo-estadounidense/

#BigBrother #ICERaids #CorporateColonialism #Colonialism #Fascism #USPol #WorldPol

Nur Stunden nachdem #Trump zum neuen Präsidenten ausgerufen wurde, wirft die Behörde Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) frisches Geld auf den Markt für noch mehr Überwachungstechnik, um mit Trumps Plänen mithalten zu können.

#NoTechForICE #datadrivendeportation #surveillancepolicing

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-surveillance-contracts-isap/

#NoTechForICE was a miserable failure, but for what it's worth if you work for a company that has an ICE contract now would be a great time to start exploring your opportunities.

@jalcine The origin story comes directly from #NoTechForICE and the activism of Mijente

Workers at Google, Amazon and beyond have been organizing against such contracts for several years now, inspired by and in solidarity with longstanding efforts such as #NoTechForICE and Tech Won't Build It.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/1/google_project_nimbus_israeli_military_unionizing

On this #PrimeDay, learn the ugly truth about where Amazon brings in most of its profits and how it's driving warfare that harms Black, Brown, and Muslim communities.

#AmazonHurts #NoTechForICE #NoTechForApartheid: https://bit.ly/3Rpjg9b

Looks like the relations between RELX (parent company of Elsevier and LexisNexis) and law libraries in the US are a little too close for comfort?
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RT @ConMijente
The American Association of Law Libraries—whose annual conference this year is themed "Advancing Justice for All"—says it doesn't endorse demands for @LexisNexis to cut its ICE contract.

So that justice doesn't include immigrants or our communities @aallnet?

#NoTechforICE …
https://twitter.com/ConMijente/status/1548540035217051650

Cinthya Rodriguez (Chicago, 1994) es organizadora nacional del colectivo de persones latinas y chicanas migrantes en Estados Unidos Mijente. A través de la campaña #NoTechForICE señalan y denuncian los vínculos entre las grandes empresas tecnológicas y el sistema migratorio de vigilancia y deportaciones en Estados Unidos... https://www.elsaltodiario.com/migracion/tecnologias-se-usan-para-vigilar-personas-migrantes-despues-se-usan-resto-poblacion desde @ElSaltoDiario

YES
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RT @ConMijente
BREAKING – Thomson Reuters has buckled!

After 3 yrs of shareholder proposals from @bcgeu, they’ve agreed to an investigation into human rights abuses enabled by the databroker software they sell to ICE.

We’ll be watching the outcome of this closely.

#NoTechForICE
https://twitter.com/ConMijente/status/1520072026370678784

« Regouverner (1/2) : la nouvelle ère des licences libres » par Hubert Guillaud

https://www.internetactu.net/2021/02/17/regouverner-1-2-la-nouvelle-ere-des-licences-libres/

> Mais depuis quelque temps, les dissensions ont été plus fortes que jamais […] notamment à l’encontre de l’utilisation de logiciels open source dans le déploiement de projets qui vont à l’encontre de sa philosophie […], comme ce fut le cas lors de contestations à l’égard du déploiement des systèmes […] de contrôle des frontières américaines (ICE), #NoTechForICE

Java, Ruby, and Python are the languages of oppression!

Ok, not really, but if you run OSS projects maybe you can exclude certain uses in the license? Is that a thing?

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RT @[email protected]
Thousands of open source projects are being used by Palantir to help ICE carry out human rights abuses. And we're naming names.

Tear down the wall at https://icebreaker.dev/

#NoTechForICE
https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1222203448369827845

Če koga zanima #tehnobritoff o protestih na amerških kampusih proti prisotnosti podjetja Palantir

#evo https://radiostudent.si/politika/britoff/palantir-na-britoff-zgodovine
#noTechforICE

Considering recent #NoTechForICE walkout at @[email protected] and apparent black-box sexism of #AppleCard revealed a few days ago by @[email protected], the #infovisfhp talk today by @[email protected] seems all the more timely…

if you missed at #theglassroom #NoTechforICE Tech Workers, Organize! with @[email protected]
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] it is now online!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcRpIcPFrFQ @[email protected] @[email protected]

kudos to @[email protected] employees protesting their company's dealings with US immigration agencies that enforce an inhumane border regime.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k8mp/tech-workers-walked-off-the-job-after-software-they-made-was-sold-to-ice

via @[email protected] & @[email protected]

#NoTechForICE

#Google: giving tech services to #USofA #immigration agencies only enables them to violate #HumanRights faster.

The time to say no in now:

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/google-no-tech-for-ice

#NoGCPforCBP #NoTechforICE #Politics #Society #StopDrUMPf

via @CREDOMobile