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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

you say that, but if that was the case why would ibm go to all that trouble to get an exclusion from the json user agreement clause "the software shall be used for good, not evil"?

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Yeah they did the 30s/40s equivalent, but I don't think they still have the functional capacity to work at that scale.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

they probably do, just that we don't get to hear about it until a couple of years have passed.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No like i don't think they're still competent enough. Morally, sure, thry could be that evil.

If, say, Denver needed that database, they'd do it before the check cleared.

I dont think they could do it for a large country.

They would want to, they would take the contract, ans it would hire so many subcontractors cut so many corners the end product would be unrecognizable.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i mean

Edit: sorry, reuters seems to be stripping stuff off of the link. the quote i linked to is

Technology giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM were named as "central to Israel's surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction."

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It takes all of them plus the Zionist state, for something smaller than California.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fair enough. i just know ibm is a big actor with many european governments as well, more so than the others. probably by virtue of having been around a lot longer.

And certain preexisting relationships.

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