PieFedPalantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
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Is this not about the magazine refusing to publish Palantir’s response to the initial article, which is part of Swiss law? Palantir is shit, but let’s maybe get the headline right.
Palantir’s lawsuit, filed in January, is not seeking damages or making libel claims against Republik, but instead alleges that the company was not given sufficient right to reply under Swiss media law.
Palantir is trying to abuse a Swiss law to intimidate any negative coverage of themselves. This is a SLAPP suit. The headline is just fine, actually.
Switzerland’s right of reply law exists so people can correct factual errors, not so corporations can force publications to run PR copy because they didn’t like the tone of accurate, document-based reporting.
Good for Switzerland meanwhile UK is giving its critical infrastructure like NHS to these war mongering greedy fucks. I am sure some people got their pockets lined up with money to help pass these deals.
But here’s the thing that makes this even more absurd: Palantir isn’t even claiming the articles are false. The company isn’t suing for defamation. It isn’t seeking damages. Instead, it’s invoking a Swiss “right of reply” statute, alleging that Republik didn’t give the company a sufficient opportunity to respond. Palantir wants the court to force the magazine to publish lengthy counter-statements to each article.
Misleading title
Is it though? Like, theres missing detail about the request to publish their talking points in addition to the original reporting, but it’s a pretty fair description of the original reporting at issue. That’s pretty solid as far as headlines go.
Even the article contains the right info even though the title is misleading. They aren’t suing because they published the article. They are suing because the magazine refuses to publish their reply, which the magazine is legally required to publish according to swiss law.
I’m not defending palantir but no need to invent reasons to be mad at them.
Your behaviour is indistinguishable from that of someone who is defending them, since you’re arguing their side of the lawsuit. The magazine is legally required to publish a reply which is “succinct and confine[s] itself to the subject matter of the contentious representation,” not any given reply that Palantir wants to make. As quoted at several removes, “Republik’s managing director Katharina Hemmer said Palantir had wanted the magazine to publish a very lengthy counterstatement to each article. Republik believed the proposed statements did not fairly address or rebut the reporting”
geriksonHow often is section 28g of the civil code of Switzerland invoked?
It’s still a SLAPP suit. Palantir has massively more PR resources, and if they wished to actually respond to the content of the Republik piece, they could do so.
What they are doing is trying to send a message to future reporters - report negatively on us, and we will make it very very expensive for you to respond to legal challenges.
OTOH is a huge self-own. Reporters live to get attacked by giant faceless corporations. No-one outside a small section of the Swiss reading public would have even heard of this story before Palantir decided to go nuclear.
selfI’m not defending palantir but no need to invent reasons to be mad at them.
the fuck is wrong with you
lol
Yeah, why should you shy away from being as unfair and mean as our common adversary.
To be frank i’m with @lauha@lemmy.world here. We shouldn’t comit the same crimes evil corp ist guilty of. And we should advocate truth and transparency.
Actually @flowerysongs@awful.systems put it into context quite nicely.
me telling you to go fuck yourself makes me exactly as unfair and mean as Palantir, a Peter Thiel company specializing in genocide and mass surveillance. yes hmm I see
you and your friend can both fuck off with the type of truth and transparency where you claim to not be defending fucking Palantir of all things while uncritically parroting their words. nobody fucking needs that in any context. you don’t in fact have to hand it to the fascists on this or any other point.
I just finished the article and yeah, it’s pretty embarrassing for Palantir
Those embarrassing things are pretty well known in public. The rest are just dull bureaucratic denials to Palantir (as they should). Palantir must be a snowflake to react like this. I guess that must be expected from an inconsiderate bully.
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Palantir are a terrorist company
Fucking lmao
Whole article is a very fun read. I was expecting palantir was suing for like defamation or something, but it might actually be dumber than that
I read because of your comment, it was a really fun read. A bit cringe on the “we’re white collar thugs and we will bully you until you do as we say”, but it’s hilarious how it failed spectacularly for multiple reasons.
but isn’t it 100% true?
The EU member states take note.
The vampires want a circusEdit: wrong post but it still kind of applies.
There is also that french privacy advocate Christophe Boutry who got his Qonto account closed because he talked badly about Pallantir and Thiel is a big investor in Qonto.
Sounds like Americans