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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 23 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

And listen, I know people harp on this a lot, but it's a company literally named after an orb that lets the most evil force in the world spy on your thoughts.

Minor nitpick from a LotR nerd - that’s not how the Palantíri work. But I suppose that’s not really all that important considering the real topic at hand here.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well now I want to know how it does work. Can you post a wall of text about it? I'll read it.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    The Palantíri were indeed remote seeing stones, so you could still say it's a good name for a company that wants to spy on people. But someone using a palantír could not read the thoughts of others any more than you could read the thoughts of someone you're watching through a camera. At least with a camera you might get sound and be able to eavesdrop on a conversation - the palantíri were seeing stones, they didn't transmit sound. Now they could also transmit the intended thoughts of a person, so two people using the stones could converse in thought, but it was more like talking without words than reading each others minds.

    I don't really have much more in the way of a wall of text for this explanation, but if you're curious to know more about the palantíri, I'd recommend checking out their entry on the LotR Wiki.

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