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[–] 1 point 9 months 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"?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (4 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (3 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."

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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