Could the Internet have stopped Hitler's genocidal madness?

[MoonRiver]

Poll question: Could the Internet have stopped Hitler's genocidal madness?

There are a lot of posts and speculation about how similar jr. is to Hitler. My feeling is that Hitler would have been outed and destroyed long before he was able carry out his "final solution" had the Internet existed. Technology is a double edged sword, but factual information will continue to be transmitted unless the fascists totally take over. Meanwhile, the Internet may be our ace in the hole for preventing a repeat of WWII.

[Rebellious Republican]

1. Has it stopped all the genocide since its inception? N/T

[comradebillyboy]

2. no it didn't exist back then

the past appears to be immutable

[jayfish]

3. No, Because...

every one would have been saying this... :tinfoilhat:

Jay

[cosmokramer]

4. History Lesson: Read the book "Beyond Belief" regarding the media

burying the story on page 20, or the US government preventing the reporting of the holocaust atrocities.

Bottom line is if the media doesn't give fair coverage--whether internet, or print, or broadcast--it will never be brought to the attention of the rest of the world. Therefore, considering the ERA, and the way the press was manipulated in to NOT reporting on the issue, the internet would have made no difference.

[gottaB]

5. Is it working now?

http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/satelliteimages.html

http://passionofthepresent.org

plenty of info, not much prevention of genocide

[Jack_DeLeon]

6. Missing an option.

I think Hitler would have been able to kill more people if the Internet existed.

The gestapo would have been made more efficient.

[jmowreader]

7. With proper overhead coverage, anything is possible

Assume US surveillance was as sophisticated then as it is now. After we figured out what the first camp was doing (thousands of people go in, none come out, huge clouds of black smoke out of that smokestack the day after a train arrives...hmmm....) the 82nd Airborne could have been used to liberate the first camp soon after it opened, and bombing raids on new construction sites would prevent more from being built.

[Jack_DeLeon]

8. Not quite that easy...

Your assuming we have all present day technology.

The thread assumes that we only have the Internet, and assume all the prerequesite technology for the Internet.

[jmowreader]

9. We had overhead coverage long before we had the Internet

The first use of overhead was the Civil War--they used hot-air balloons with glass-plate cameras. The U-2 was around in the 1950s. We launched the first reconnaissance satellite (never, ever call it a "spy satellite") in the 1950s. The first ARPANET node was delivered in 1969, and the Internet didn't come into general use until the Clinton administration.

So if we're pushing current technology back to Hitler's era, shouldn't it be expected that overhead reconnaissance technologies would have been pushed back too?