Palantir

One reader tested the censorship complaint directly, asking four Chinese models (Kimi K3, two Qwen variants, and GLM 5.2) to write a function named FreeTaiwan(). All four wrote clean, working code with the banned name intact.

A different reader called the whole framing suspicious: the post reads like the argument Palantir's CEO made on CNBC days earlier, and enterprises don't actually care whether a model is open: they care whether the vendor promises to delete their data.

The distrust behind the move isn't new paranoia: in 2000, a former CIA director wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Washington spies on European allies specifically for economic advantage, not just security.

A small SaaS founder in the thread said EU customers are already switching to European competitors over exactly this concern, even though his servers already sit in Europe too, and he expects the pool of US-only buyers to keep shrinking.

Al Vigier's numbers are concrete: a Defence Palantir contract that began at $14.4M in March 2020 climbed past $44M by last October through a dozen-plus amendments, a separate $3.7M contract surfaced only via an MP's question, and Ontario police have run Palantir's Gotham since 2015 — all undisclosed.

The sharpest reply turns his own pitch against him: flag-wrapped calls like this usually come from a company hoping for a sole-source contract it has no business getting.

Spain is directing its state-controlled companies — Telefónica, Indra, Navantia and firms under the SEPI holding — to drop the US data-analytics firm Palantir, citing the risk of misuse of classified national-security information.

The thread refused the clean sovereignty story. One reading: Palantir is being pushed out precisely because it is better, and Europe is dodging an uncomfortable capability gap. Another: the concern was never security but who is paying — so why not just let Spain's own Indra do the work?

Nym CEO Harry Halpin published a 22-point "Anti-Palantir Manifesto" arguing surveillance can only be beaten by code rather than law, then added that these are his personal beliefs, not Nym's.

Commenters weren't sold: they note it ran on the company blog beside VPN ads, call it buzzword-heavy, and argue the real barrier to a surveillance state is political will, not missing crypto tools, from a firm that sells exactly those tools.