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Re:Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team by aaronbrethorst on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:48PM (#32783324)
As it works out, I would say it’s more in the vein of blaming IBM for their culpability in the Holocaust, not Mercedes, although clearly Meta’s role was nowhere near as awful as IBM’s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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Re:Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team by thegrimmest on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:58PM (#32783428)
Can I ask why? The Nazis could no more perpetrate the holocaust without cars than they could without computers.
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Re:Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team by trhway on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:20PM (#32786057)
I think the difference here is like between a German soldier who was ordered to do various things ultimately playing part in perpetration of Holocaust and/or other Hitler regime's crimes without possibly knowing/seeing/understanding the whole picture - after all millions of Germans did actively participated in Hitler regime - and say a USA person who would intentionally go there to join the SS to participate in it.
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