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Related: About this forumVladimir Kara-Murza: U.S. tech companies are 'acting as accomplices to dictatorships'
Vladimir Kara-Murza knows a thing or two about the dangers of government-sponsored, tech industry-supported censorship. As a Russian opposition activist, he was found guilty of treason for speaking out against Putins crackdown on dissidents. And now, in the context of Trumps government overhaul, U.S. tech companies are essentially acting as accomplices to dictatorships. Those companies that declare their adherence to principles such as the rule of law, respect for human rights, respect for democracy, they have to actually follow these principles, as opposed to helping dictatorships overcome them.
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Vladimir Kara-Murza: U.S. tech companies are 'acting as accomplices to dictatorships' (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Feb 9
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IBM did it to aid Nazis in processing Jews; Bayer supplied the cyanide gas to use in the the death chambers. Same story
Evolve Dammit
Feb 9
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Your comment beat me to it... VW/Porsche made tanks. Krups made guns and the list goes on and on...uff..
mitch96
Feb 9
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Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)1. IBM did it to aid Nazis in processing Jews; Bayer supplied the cyanide gas to use in the the death chambers. Same story
80 years later.... Fucking enablers in genocide
mitch96
(15,144 posts)3. Your comment beat me to it... VW/Porsche made tanks. Krups made guns and the list goes on and on...uff..
Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)4. Prescott Bush had a role as well. Always about the money isn't it?
mitch96
(15,144 posts)5. He was also part of the "businessman's Plot" trying to install a "business friendly" Nazi style government.
They even tried to get about 500,000 ex US Army troops in an attempt to get rid of Roosevelt..
Good old General Smedly Butler (their guy to lead the military coup) told the Prez and that shit stopped real quick...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)6. Thanks for that. And Smedly.
mitch96
(15,144 posts)7. Great name...Smedly...nt
KT2000
(21,386 posts)2. At 2:11 is that Maria Cantwell?
or a tech poo bah?