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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 11:31:14 CET Aral Balkan

   Palantir → Amazon → Children in cages

   https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612335/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/

   #SurveillanceCapitalism

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 12:32:31 CET Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     PS. None of this is unprecedented: Thomas Watson, IBM’s first CEO (after whom their AI is named) got “a special award — created specifically for the occasion — to honor extraordinary service by a foreigner to the Third Reich.”

     https://mic.com/articles/142991/edwin-black-ibm-nazi-holocaust-history

     https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1301691

   • Michael J. Gratton (mjog@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 13:16:36 CET Michael J. Gratton

     in reply to

     @aral One difference between IBM's collaboration with Nazis and Amazon's is that back then, normal people didn't buy stuff from IBM - they sold to big businesses only.

     Amazon's maybe not profitable solely to their consumer retail market, but if everyone who shops there suddenly stopped, they would certainly notice.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.