While I don't think I agree with Lantos's position, he's one person who does have significant standing to make comparisons with Nazi Germany. And in addressing the specific point the Microsoft guy was making, Lantos was right.
I should point out that I value The Register more for their articles' humourous value than their journalistic merit and would not choose to link to them as a source of authoritative information.
I do not know anything at all about anybody named Lantos, elected representative or otherwise, and have no knowledge of, nor much interest in, what individuals had to say at the hearing. The consequences, if any, may be of interest - to Google, Walmart and others.
An American by choice, Tom Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary, on February 1, 1928. He was 16 years of age when Nazi Germany occupied his native country. As a teenager, he was placed in a Hungarian fascist forced labor camp. He succeeded in escaping and was able to survive in a safe house in Budapest set up by Swedish humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg. His story is one of the individual accounts which forms the basis of Steven Spielberg's Academy Award winning documentary about the Holocaust in Hungary, The Last Days.
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Date: 2006-02-16 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-16 06:47 pm (UTC)I do not know anything at all about anybody named Lantos, elected representative or otherwise, and have no knowledge of, nor much interest in, what individuals had to say at the hearing. The consequences, if any, may be of interest - to Google, Walmart and others.
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Date: 2006-02-16 07:22 pm (UTC)