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Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze (www.adweek.com)

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I was going to say that's incredibly on brand for Disney. Everything 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.

[-] Zacpod@lemmy.world 12 points 23 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.

[-] PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world 3 points 19 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.

[-] Zacpod@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

https://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

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

What makes you think they didn't feed them?

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