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IBM participated in apartheid[0] in South Africa, providing hardware and software to the government to run the passbook system which enabled widespread racial p
by TehCorwiz 10y ago
IBM participated in apartheid[0] in South Africa, providing hardware and software to the government to run the passbook system which enabled widespread racial profiling. They have yet to be held accountable[1], despite having participated directly.
Say what you will about the author of NanoCore, he participated in the supposed crimes less than IBM did in apartheid.
[0]: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.comp.html http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.co...
[1]: http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/areas-of-focus/previous-areas-of-focus/in-re-south-african-apartheid-litigation/ http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/areas-of-focus/previous-areas-of-...