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posted by cmn32480 on Monday December 19 2016, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the preventing-the-mistakes-of-the-past dept.

Two weeks ago, twitter was the only company willing to publicly commit to not aiding the government in building a database of muslims or any other religious minority. At the time, many criticized the Intercept for a click-baity, misleading headline.

But the public shaming had an effect and now more companies have come forward to vow non-cooperation in repeating one of America's biggest mistakes - when the census bureau provided the names of Japanese to be rounded up for internment camps.

One company notably missing from the list is Oracle which owns the big-data profiling company BlueKai and whose CEO recently joined the president elect's transition team. Also absent is IBM, a company with a history of aiding the German government with their execution of the Holocaust.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @07:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @07:16AM (#442984)

    The No-Fly list and other lists already exist. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, IBM will build empty lists, and career bureaucrats will fill them with Muslims if desired.

    IBM will sell a copy of Watson to put on a few million cores. Govt. to Watson: "Can you find the mutants? I mean Muslims. All the Muslims?" Watson: "ah hell ya nigga"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @07:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @07:41AM (#442991)

    Oh yeah, the no-fly list, I'm on that. Makes no difference to me because I hate to fly. I don't even take trains. I reluctantly rode a bus today but only because the temperature outside is below 0F. In any other weather I'll happily walk 5 miles to the store and back. Fuck your list, I have legs.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:10AM (#443005)

      You'll be put on the No-Walk list. You try to run through a checkpoint, you get a double amputation.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:20AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:20AM (#443009)

        That's just a flesh wound.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @06:12PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @06:12PM (#443238)

          You've got no legs!

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:26AM (#443012)

        Obamacare gimme a free wheelchair! Bless da nigaa. Free at last. Free at last!