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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: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Monday December 19 2016, @06:41PM

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Monday December 19 2016, @06:41PM (#443254) Journal

    You lumped muslims into a group. You collectively refer to over a quarter of the world's population as if they are like-minded, identical people with the same opinions.

    +1000. Next step it to start posting links to that fucking bigot-fest that is thereligionofpeace.com or the like. How do people not get that if even the tiniest percentage of that population where the radical jihadists we're supposed to believe they all are, they'd outnumber the combined military of just about every major nation of the world?

    Interesting related note: During the height of the Iraq war I decided to look up some numbers, and at that time the estimated membership of Al-Qaeda as a percentage of the Islamic population of the world happened to be identical (down to like 3 decimal places) to the membership of the KKK as a percentage of Protestants worldwide.

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