One of the founding members of the startup accelerator Y combinator offered impartial criticism of the controversial data analysis business Palantir, which led to a company manager an extensive defense of Palantir’s work this weekend.

The back and forth have come Federal filing showed that US immigration and Customs Handage (ICE) -which exports the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation strategy -Palantir $ 30 million to create to create What it calls the operating system for immigration life cycleor immigration, to help Ice to decide who to target for deportation, as well as to present a real -time visibility in self -report.

Y combinator founder Paul Graham shared headlines on Palantir’s contract on XWrite: “This is a very exciting time in technology now. If you are a first-class programmer, there are a large number of other places where you can go to work rather than the company that builds the police infrastructure.”

In response, the World Head of Commercial Head of Palantir Ted Mabrey wrote that he “looks forward to the next set of rental that decided to apply to Palantir after reading your post.”

Mbrey did not discuss the details of the current work of Palantir with ICE, but he said the company started with the Department of Home Security (including Ice work) “in the immediate response to the murder of agent Jaime Zapata by the Zetas in an attempt to mention Operation cases hero. “

“If people live because of what you have built, and others are dead, because what you have built has not been good enough, you develop a very different perspective on the meaning of your work,” Mbrey said.

He also compared Graham’s criticism of protests about Google’s Project Maven in 2018, which eventually urged the company to stop his job of analyzing drone images for the military. (Google then indicated that it is open for defense again.)

Mbrey called on anyone interested in working for Palantir to read the CEO of Alexander Karp’s new book “The Technological Republic”, arguing that the software industry should rebuild its relationship with the government. (The company was Recruitment on university campuses with signs stating that a moment of reckoning for the West has arrived. “)

“We rent believers,” Mbrey continued. “Not in the sense of homogeneity of faith, but in the intrinsic ability to believe in something greater than yourself. Faith is needed because 1) our work is very, very difficult and 2) You must expect to weather the attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political way.”

Graham then Printed Mabrey to “commit publicly on behalf of Palantir not to build things that help the government to violate the US Constitution,” although he acknowledged in another post that such a commitment would “have no legal power.

“But I hope that if they (make the commitment), and one day a Palantir employee is asked to do something illegal, he will say ‘I have not entered this’ and refuse,'” Graham wrote.

Mbrey in turn Compare Graham’s question After ‘the’ will promise you to stop hitting your wife’s courtroom ‘, but he added that the company’ made this promise so much ways from Sunday ‘, starting with a commitment to’ the 3500 enormous thoughtful people just grinding because they believe they make the world a better place every day, while seeing the first hand we do. ‘