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1. dsr_+Nk[view] [source] 2020-06-15 16:51:13
>>Xordev+(OP)
Corporations are people. If they don't act ethically, we can't expect people to act ethically.

Ending a contract with an agency that runs concentration camps is good. Better, though, is to not accept any contracts with any government that runs concentration camps.

Small steps are good. Big steps are better.

PS: great fear from all paying customers that run concentration camps that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time -- sounds like a good policy to me. Not as good as "Don't be evil", but reasonably close.

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2. TheAda+ym[view] [source] 2020-06-15 16:56:14
>>dsr_+Nk
Your choice of language by saying "concentration camps" is unproductively hyperbolic and reminiscent of Nazis killing Jews in WW2. People found to have been here illegally are being kept in detention centers until deportation or trial. Nobody is getting gassed or burned in ovens.
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3. intarg+oq[view] [source] 2020-06-15 17:10:45
>>TheAda+ym
"Concentration camp" as a term pre-dates the Nazis, and has a specific meaning, which does apply here.

>A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect.

I would also note that the term does not apply to places where people in Nazi Germany were gassed or cremated, those have a separate term: death camps.

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