Vaccine-passport rhetoric invoked IBM’s Nazi punch-card history as precedent

Evidence

Just in case viewers weren’t frightened enough, she latched onto a detail about IBM providing data support in New York State to go all the way there. “IBM has a horrible history with Nazi Germany,” Wolf told Hilton. “Its subsidiary created a kind of precursor of this with punch cards that allowed the Nazis to keep lists of—again a two-tiered society—Aryan and Jews, in such a way that they could round up Jews, round up dissidents, round up opposition leaders, very, very quickly. It’s catastrophic, it cannot be allowed to continue.” But how, you might well ask, could this gruesome dystopia be ushered in via one vaccination app? Easy, Wolf explained. All it took was “a tweak of the back end.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 242

Categorization

• SHARE: The IBM-Holocaust-punch-cards-to-vaccine-app leap, collapsing to ‘a tweak of the back end,’ is worth sending to anyone who studies conspiracy rhetoric or platform governance.
• XREF: The ‘a tweak of the back end’ trivial-mechanism move is the same conspiratorial architecture Klein analyzes throughout her Mirror World chapters.