After reading about their renewed plans to work on facial recognition technology, here’s your friendly reminder that without IBM helping the Nazis they wouldn’t have been able to plan the Holocaust anywhere near as effeciently.
I’m not sure that being involved with the manufacture of the machinery of oppression makes one culpable for the oppression itself but it’s not a good look. The practice continues in the form of arms deals with dubious and autocratic regimes around the world.
Never mind the fact that anyone involved in that project is long since dead.
It’s like assuming someone is a Nazi because their great-grandfather was a Nazi.
Fucking stupid. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to bash on shitty companies doing shitty things without resorting to baseless bullshit.