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I can't read "Fujitsu" without immediately thinking of a public-private partnership post office software debacle where a software error is exploited by unsuperv

I can't read "Fujitsu" without immediately thinking of a public-private partnership post office software debacle where a software error is exploited by unsupervised private prosecutors incentivized by financial reasons (finder's commissions) to wrongly accuse, extort, and imprison hundreds of subpostmasters.

kragen 3y ago
you may be overgeneralizing a bit there are 18 sovereign countries in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... with smaller populations than fujitsu, and 31 with smaller economies than fujitsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
- ithkuil 3y ago
  Reminds me of Martha Wells' sci-fi novel series Murderbot Diaries, and the corporations in the Corporation Rim
- mynameisnoone 3y ago
  What are you talking about? Did you watch the drama or the documentary that finally spurred the UK gov to partially redress this absurd scandal?
  - kragen 3y ago
    no, of course not, watching documentaries is a waste of time that makes you actively less informed than you were before watching them; your irrational knee-jerk response to the word 'fujitsu' is a perfect example of this
NikkiA 3y ago
Well, they weren't 'Fujitsu' at the time though, they were still British company 'ICL' ('International Computers Limited') in 1999. The post hoc insistance on using it's rebrand helps with the 'othering' of making it sound like a foreign company doing all the dodgy shit.
- mynameisnoone 3y ago
  First, what is wrong with you? You're weaponizing a false racism accusation to silence someone making a point while denigrating and disrespecting actual racism. Second, you're wrong because that was until 2002 when they were acquired and kept doing "dodgy shit" together with the Post Office until 2015. The Post Office recorded the profits, the private prosecutors got a cut of false reclaimed losses, and the software contractor enabled them.

kragen 3y ago

you may be overgeneralizing a bit there are 18 sovereign countries in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... with smaller populations than fujitsu, and 31 with smaller economies than fujitsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

ithkuil 3y ago
Reminds me of Martha Wells' sci-fi novel series Murderbot Diaries, and the corporations in the Corporation Rim
mynameisnoone 3y ago
What are you talking about? Did you watch the drama or the documentary that finally spurred the UK gov to partially redress this absurd scandal?
- kragen 3y ago
  no, of course not, watching documentaries is a waste of time that makes you actively less informed than you were before watching them; your irrational knee-jerk response to the word 'fujitsu' is a perfect example of this

NikkiA 3y ago

Well, they weren't 'Fujitsu' at the time though, they were still British company 'ICL' ('International Computers Limited') in 1999. The post hoc insistance on using it's rebrand helps with the 'othering' of making it sound like a foreign company doing all the dodgy shit.

mynameisnoone 3y ago
First, what is wrong with you? You're weaponizing a false racism accusation to silence someone making a point while denigrating and disrespecting actual racism. Second, you're wrong because that was until 2002 when they were acquired and kept doing "dodgy shit" together with the Post Office until 2015. The Post Office recorded the profits, the private prosecutors got a cut of false reclaimed losses, and the software contractor enabled them.