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Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday December 19 2016, @04:21PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Monday December 19 2016, @04:21PM (#443188) Journal

    Not sure about the others since I don't read Faux News' comments section (and Breitbart's just for the lulz), but if Runaway is your yardstick for Christian extremist, you need to get out more.

    Does Mark Koernke still broadcast anymore? I remember we were supposed to get ready to march on the infidels in Reichsführer Jesus' army around the time Koernke got arrested for a gun permit violation, then nothing really happened.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @06:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @06:39PM (#443253)

    but if Runaway is your yardstick for Christian extremist,

    Who said anything about Christian? He's a Mooslim agent! Did you not read that stuff on "strategic lying"? What better cover for a radical jihadist that a Arkansas hillbilly who is scared of Muslims? Think about it.