IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city's police-linked death-squads

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/20/ibm-at-auschwitz-3.html

Well, what’s new? IBM was on the Nazi payroll back in the day, right?

Business is business.

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The post mentions that further down.

And now…

Uhhh… huh. Sure. You bet. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me three times, that’s quite the business model you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

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As if we needed any more evidence that their corporate culture is strong and evil.

Right, which answers the question of “Why did you think you could get away with it without blowback?” but that’s not the question we asked…No excuse not to do your Duterte diligence, my friend.

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A great documentary about countering the communists in The Philippines with death squads:

The Act of Killing

The same group’s next film:

The Look of Silence

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