Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze

kerrigan778@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was going to say that’s incredibly on brand for Disney. Everything I feel I have ever heard about Comcast seems to back up this move.

  I’m surprised about IBM though, more because I didn’t realize they were still around than anything else.

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  • Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IBM sold “inmate” counting machines to Nazi Germany. Like, sent techs there to the camps to size up the requirements and everything. It should NOT come as a surprise that they’re back on X - they’ve never had an issue with Fascism (or any other ism) as long as they had money to spend on overpriced iron.

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    • PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why would they even need a machine to count the prisoners? If they didn’t feed their victims and were planning to murder them anyways I’m having trouble understanding why they wouldn’t be okay with just a loose head count. Was it really just for counting?

      I hope I’m not coming across as insensitive, I’ve just never heard about this and it sounds so ominous.

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What makes you think they didn’t feed them?

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      • Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

        Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM’s punchcard technology.[2]: 351  In his book, Black charges that “without IBM’s machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler’s camps could have never managed the numbers they did.”[2]: 352 

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