Is this a red line

What better way to get you to pay them to steal and abuse your data?

Profiteering is the wrong word.

Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

It comes pre-installed with "Your Palantir Pal" AI assistant.

Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.

Y'all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this wasn't is some Nanny State telling them they can't buy this.

It's a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.

The problem is not with the buyers.

this is just them making money off people who will willingly give them money

its not some blatant overreach of power, at worst their using their fame as advertising for it

how exactly are they abusing their power with this one?

Using their position of political power to advertise a business which directly benefits them. It is plainly not part of the duties of the office. Same reason good presidents put their financial affairs in a blind trust for the duration of of their term.

The goal is to not let them take their fucking money and run. Because then it would be real... So you come up with a new idea, a better idea, a NEW STOCK.

IYKYK