It's In Their Nature

 

"Boutte Liquer - JBAC Executeef"

A new crop of Authoritarian supporters is blooming at the Joe Big-Ass Corporation (JBAC). Goose-stepping technologists and administrators are back at the suppression game, humping the legs of repressive regimes, just like they did in Germany during WWII and in South Africa during apartheid: From The Associated Press: ".. the AP found a Chinese defense contractor, Huadi, worked with IBM to design the main policing system known as the “Golden Shield” for Beijing to censor the internet and crack down on alleged terrorists, the Falun Gong religious sect, and even villagers deemed troublesome, according to thousands of pages of classified government blueprints taken out of China by a whistleblower, verified by AP and revealed here for the first time. IBM and other companies that responded said they fully complied with all laws, sanctions and U.S. export controls governing business in China, past and present. Across China, surveillance systems track blacklisted “key persons,” whose movements are restricted and monitored. In Xinjiang, administrators logged people as high, medium, or low risk, often according to 100-point scores with deductions for factors like growing a beard, being 15 to 55 years old, or just being Uyghur." Take a bow, you brown-shirted geese....  ~