- 25 Nov 2018 18:16
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While I generally don't take issue with prosecuting Nazis for the crimes they committed, I think Nuremburg was too much victor's justice and violated ex-post facto since "crimes against humanity" did not exist prior to the end of the war. Yet, that did not stop people from pursuing every possible Nazi to the ends of the Earth.
Historically, this hunt also included suing corporations that had anything to do with the German government during the Nazi period. Volkswagen was one such corporation.
Since the American firm, IBM, was also involved through its German subsidiary, IBM is flagged in the Holocaust since it sold punch card systems for the German census that was used to identify Jews, among other things. By today's standards, those systems were inherently crude. Today, online services track individuals, their whereabouts, what they say online and on wireless phones, etc.
Google has refused to participate with the US department of defense on some of its projects, in part, because some of its customers object. Yet, Google is implementing surveillance technologies to help the totalitarian government of China surveil its citizens and aid political repression.
Google is a service and it is implementing technology to aid a totalitarian society. Can Google claim that it is innocent in the apprehension and imprisonment of democratic activists in China through the policing technologies it provides to the government of China?
I say no. Google used to have a motto of "Don't be evil". They have conspicuously dropped that policy. Like Amazon's creepy "Alexa," Google is clearly involved in espionage. Yet, Google is clearly taking sides in refusing to help the United States, while simultaneously aiding an actual totalitarian one-party state, while dropping its "Don't be evil" policy.
What will a future human rights court say about Google? Will Google have bought off enough so-called "human rights" activists to escape censure?
Historically, this hunt also included suing corporations that had anything to do with the German government during the Nazi period. Volkswagen was one such corporation.
Since the American firm, IBM, was also involved through its German subsidiary, IBM is flagged in the Holocaust since it sold punch card systems for the German census that was used to identify Jews, among other things. By today's standards, those systems were inherently crude. Today, online services track individuals, their whereabouts, what they say online and on wireless phones, etc.
Google has refused to participate with the US department of defense on some of its projects, in part, because some of its customers object. Yet, Google is implementing surveillance technologies to help the totalitarian government of China surveil its citizens and aid political repression.
Google is a service and it is implementing technology to aid a totalitarian society. Can Google claim that it is innocent in the apprehension and imprisonment of democratic activists in China through the policing technologies it provides to the government of China?
I say no. Google used to have a motto of "Don't be evil". They have conspicuously dropped that policy. Like Amazon's creepy "Alexa," Google is clearly involved in espionage. Yet, Google is clearly taking sides in refusing to help the United States, while simultaneously aiding an actual totalitarian one-party state, while dropping its "Don't be evil" policy.
What will a future human rights court say about Google? Will Google have bought off enough so-called "human rights" activists to escape censure?
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