Wow! Ain't politics grand. Tracking down suspicious online behavior in the US may be OK but not in China. According to the House human rights hearing Committee chair, a Mr. Smith, we can look to the Holocaust to understand how big a problem corporate policy on the Internet is in China. He recommended everyone read a book on IBM's actions in Germany during WWII called IBM and the Holocaust. According to its web site the book:
IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s....
Only with IBM's technologic assistance was Hitler able to achieve the staggering numbers of the Holocaust. Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany's war against the Jews -- how did Hitler get the names?
IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries -- all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction.
Just as compelling is the human drama of one of our century's greatest minds, IBM founder Thomas Watson, who cooperated with the Nazis for the sake of profit.
You can read more about it here.
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Posted by: tolikimer | August 21, 2007 at 06:43 PM