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The communications industry has a long history of enabling government to spy on the people.

Assisting in mass surveillance seems similarly heinous to me.

Ux that deliberately encourages addiction and compulsive behavior is also pretty bad, and is highly pervasive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

> Bhopal

Could the IT industry ever cause this much harm? I suppose if an IT failure caused major infrastructure to fail, or propaganda caused a war ... or if propaganda enabled a Russian mole and fascist to become President of the U.S. (if that's what he is).