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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, @07:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @07:58AM (#443001)

    the biggest lie of the 20th century

    Says the man, who's never seen a concentration camp up close.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:07AM (#443003)

    Concentration camps are great. Everyone sleeps in bunk beds and they have these giant gas ovens where they make the deepest deep dish pizza.