Well, equating IBM selling to Nazis with Google (or whoever) selling to Israel could be considered antisemitic. For some reason, people love to bring up Nazi comparisons with Israel, but not with other nations. I wonder why that is. Even people who hate the idea of Google doing business with the US government haven't(as far as I've read) used the comparison of IBM selling to Nazi Germany.
What do you imagine the outcome of the conversation would be?
If someone never explicitly said anything bad about black people, but always lamented the crime rate in America when black people came up, I would guess that the person is racist.
You are giving too much credit to the "people". The "people" are stupid and parrot the garbage they consume. The organizations/nations that push that agenda are more interesting to look at and investigate.
I mean, FWIW, yes: internally and externally, people compared Project Maven to IBM doing business with Nazi Germany. There was significant concern among engineers that Google was going down a path of repeating the mistakes of a prior generation.
No one is quelling the conversation. You are omitting details in your comment to get readers to agree with a false premise. Workers faced consequences for illegally occupying their boss’s office and spending 10 hours screaming and refusing the leave after being trespassed.
Edit: the irony of ironies is you taking this stance, because this submission is now flagged, whereas the AI targeting submission was discussed on hn.