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Good thing tech companies no longer create technologies to help authoritarian regimes! </sarcasm>

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cough Project Dragonfly cough Xinjiang cough cough

(I feel like "concealing information about concentration camps" wouldn't exactly comport with "don't be evil.")

any technology or manufactured good can be put to improper use, so why not just be up front.

mankind is the problem.

Not just humans: https://listverse.com/2017/03/19/10-facts-about-chimpanzees-...

Some technologies (from nuclear weapons to ransomware) are clearly particularly liable to be used for ill effect.

In the IBM case, as the article explains, the technology was specifically designed by IBM for use by the Nazis.

Tech is crystalized mass produceable behaviour. How can such a thing be every truely usefull on a large scale for a society of individuals?

What Google should do is just join the military industrial complex by forming a joint-venture with companies like Boeing, Raytheon, etc. Then everyone would just leave Brittany alone.

It's easy to point your finger at China while turning a blind eye to Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. Going after Iran next. The price of "freedom" was maybe a few million Arabs or Afghans.

Why can't we point our finger at both China and US industrial military complex?

He's not ruling that out. He's just ruling out pointing at China while turning a blind eye to anyone else doing the same thing.

Is it necessary to point out every single case in a discussion/article about a specific case? We all know the current state of the world, IMHO this requirement just makes the discussion harder.

It might not be, but there may be value in pointing out that it's a systemic problem rather than one limited to one party.

Besides, "we all know the current state of affairs" is an assumption I would be quite careful about.

Agreed, but let's not dive deeply into the other countries and stay on the topic we have

It is important to make the case as broadly as possible for human rights, otherwise the individual smaller scale observations become weaponized between the major powers.

She/He is pulling a whataboutism.

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