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Re:Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract by input_sh on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:09PM (#21704989)
Nazi Germany would compel GitHub into working for them.

...at least, that's what IBM claims happened to its German subsidiary during WW2: https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1388.wss

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Re:Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract by drewbug01 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @02:02PM (#21705723)
Luckily there's plenty of evidence out there that makes it crystal clear that IBM very much wanted to be in business with Germany during that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

(I think my favorite part of that book is learning that Hitler literally gave Watson a medal.)

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