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Re:We should have the ability to run any code we want on har... by willywanker on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:31AM (#45135256)
IBM in Nazi Germany was no different from other German owned companies in being conscripted to do what the Third Reich ordered them to; the headquarters in the US obviously had no control over them during WW2.

Plus it's ridiculous to apply collective guilt in any form by blaming later IBM management, given that anyone involved with 1940s German IBM is long dead by now.

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Re:We should have the ability to run any code we want on har... by FuriouslyAdrift on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:25AM (#45167974)
The original post is about technology being used for authoritarian purposes. I used Dehomag (IBMs German subsidiary) as an example of how technology has been used to support that supposition as a historical example (I could have picked many).

Your post does not repudiate the parent post, nor my post.

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