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A comment on Palantir’s User Manual for Cops. Parent comment

Re:Palantir’s User Manual for Cops by anigbrowl on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:11PM (#20422323)
Typewriters can be turned to evil. IBM showed this to the world with their WWII-era Nazi collaboration. That doesn't mean the world should abandon typewriters, or that no self-respecting engineer should work on typewriters, or that they would be necessarily used for evil by the law-enforcement arm of a democratic society.

IBM's relationship with the Third Reich was not based on the mere supply of typewriters; such a suggestion reduces your credibility on this topic to zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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Re:Palantir’s User Manual for Cops by _iyig on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:30PM (#20422498)
>IBM's relationship with the Third Reich was not based on the mere supply of typewriters; such a suggestion reduces your credibility on this topic to zero.

"Punchcards can be turned to evil."

The specific type of dual-use technology is irrelevant to my point.

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Re:Palantir’s User Manual for Cops by anigbrowl on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:28PM (#20425087)
Misrepresentation of facts corrodes discourse.
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