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IBM and the Holocaust (en.m.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Aggravationstation@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
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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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[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eltimablo@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Not to mention, does anyone really think the Germans would have come out and said "hey, wanna help us murder 6 million people?" Fuck no, it probably looked like any other regular government contract.