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I dunno. People still do business with IBM, and they worked with the German government on the census system that tracked victims of the holocaust during WWII.
by fixermark 11y ago
I dunno. People still do business with IBM, and they worked with the German government on the census system that tracked victims of the holocaust during WWII.
IBM's existant history didn't put Cisco off of doing business with China.
- csours 11y agoIBM kind of claims that their subsidiary was more or less nationalized during the Nazi period. [1] However squishy and self-serving that claim is, Cisco doesn't even have that defense. War and human rights were going through a discovery period from WWI through the 1970's. In the 2000's there's not really an excuse for not scrutinizing what your products will be used for around the world.
- csours 11y ago1. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1388.wss https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1388.wss (too late to edit original comment, just realized I missed the link)
- cmurf 11y agoIBM did that work before the 1980 Filartiga v. Pena-Irala case, which is what enables the remedy being sought in this case. In the former case, those injuries are a part of history, whereas in the latter case they are on-going so it's also a question of standing.