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Given their past, I found it just a little rich, that IBM so publicly decried the recent "insurrection." [0] [0] https://twitter.com/ArvindKrishna/status/13469
by AndrewUnmuted 6y ago
Given their past, I found it just a little rich, that IBM so publicly decried the recent "insurrection." [0]
[0] https://twitter.com/ArvindKrishna/status/1346932293991079936 https://twitter.com/ArvindKrishna/status/1346932293991079936
- spockz 6y agoWell the IBM of today has little to do with the IBM of 80 years ago. Just like the Germany of today has little to do with what happened 80 years ago and people living now are not and should not be held responsible for the misdeeds of previous generations.
- AndrewUnmuted 6y ago> people living now are not and should not be held responsible for the misdeeds of previous generations. I'm sure we could all agree on this point. However, the aspects of IBM that led to their assisting the Third Reich are still very much alive at IBM today. It remains in the form of their core business model of assisting the world's most powerful regimes in automating oppression, autocracy, and authoritarianism at a global scale.
- spockz 6y agoOkay fair point. But sadly that holds for most companies. There are remarkably few of them that do not sell or provide support on FOSS to big governments that in turn do all kinds of nasty things. How can we change this, if at all? Isn’t it part of capitalism?