Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

Alex Karp said 10 percent of the world professionally hates Palantir and Kevin O’Leary said paid agitators were protesting his Utah data center. This is the familiar language we hear in politics when someone needs a ready scapegoat to explain away unpopularity.

We should pay attention to this argument as it transfers from politics to technology, because it is revealing the alleged victims' intent. They have done, and are going to do, some very unpopular things and, when people push back, those complaints need to be quickly marginalized.

Just like in a mob trial when the defense lawyer tells the court what the rat is getting from the government to squeal, calling people paid agitators or professional haters invites us to question their motives.

Just when we are shocked by Karp's audacity, saying that he doesn't care if the Iran war is unpopular and that Palantir will ...