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You tech bros have seriously lost it at this point, haven't you. You are literally comparing selling gas that was essentialy designed to mass murder people in

• BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  It doesn't matter where you are on the scale if the scale of "helping dictators with malicious intents". Don't get me wrong, I don't think facebook or any big tech companies has any kind of moral upper hand, given they all spy on people, lie, engage in corruption, monopoly abuses, and so on. And they all have weapon dealers in their portfolio, which sell arms to the same people using pegasus.
  • hansel_der 5y ago
    > It doesn't matter where you are on the scale imho it does. In the "IG Farben" example the managers were held accountable (correctly) because they should have known better, but not the ppl producing/packing/shipping some chemicals.
• pjc50 5y ago
  There's quite probably links to actual murders of dissidents by intelligence services, of which Jamal Kashoggi is just the most conspicuous example. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-used-to-target-family-of-jamal-khashoggi-leaked-data-shows-saudis-pegasus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-us... (To get ahead of the whataboutery: at this stage anyone providing military aid to the Saudi government is complicit in their crimes, including the US and UK militaries and their involvement in the war on Yemen)