Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
by maximente on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:03PM
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i disagree. this is cleverly appealing to the /potential/ of the technology to help people, a classic moral play to technologists.
re-read this carefully:
> We have learned from a number of nonprofits and refugee advocates that one of the greatest challenges facing immigrants is a lack of technology at ICE and related agencies, resulting in lost case files, court date notifications not being delivered, or the wrong people being charged or deported,” read a companywide posting sent Oct. 22, signed by Brescia and the leadership team.
carefully note that there are no examples given of the technology actually helping people, just the possibility dangled out there that somehow by offering GitHub services (??) various other mishaps may get improved.
the underlying theme is, "technology could help people, so it's OK that we're continuing to work with ICE."
re-read this carefully:
> We have learned from a number of nonprofits and refugee advocates that one of the greatest challenges facing immigrants is a lack of technology at ICE and related agencies, resulting in lost case files, court date notifications not being delivered, or the wrong people being charged or deported,” read a companywide posting sent Oct. 22, signed by Brescia and the leadership team.
carefully note that there are no examples given of the technology actually helping people, just the possibility dangled out there that somehow by offering GitHub services (??) various other mishaps may get improved.
the underlying theme is, "technology could help people, so it's OK that we're continuing to work with ICE."