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IBM and the Holocaust (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After reading about their renewed plans to work on facial recognition technology, here's your friendly reminder that without IBM helping the Nazis they wouldn't have been able to plan the Holocaust anywhere near as effeciently.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never mind the fact that anyone involved in that project is long since dead.

It’s like assuming someone is a Nazi because their great-grandfather was a Nazi.

Fucking stupid. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to bash on shitty companies doing shitty things without resorting to baseless bullshit.