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Re:Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters by its-summertime on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:37AM (#25791400)
> I'm curious if your opinion on this extends to, say, IG Farben providing Zyklon B to the Nazis

Wasn't IG Farben already taking in political money to find such chemicals?

> Research by Fritz Haber of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry led to the founding in 1919 of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (Degesch), a state-controlled consortium formed to investigate military use of the chemical.

of which IG Farben was a part. So it seems like this would suggest to not add politics (la military weapons research) to engineering

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Re:Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters by dTal on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:27PM (#25793413)
What's "political money"? Does it come in different denominations to regular money? Should IG Farben have refused to do business with the Nazi regime on ethical grounds?

I'm confused - should companies pick and choose who they do business with, or shouldn't they?

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Re:Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters by its-summertime on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:29PM (#25799006)
Well it'd be a company explicitly avoiding getting into politics wouldn't it?

I don't think anyone has spoken against companies getting to pick and choose in this chain, just on what merits they should pick and choose on

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