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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by Ar-Curunir on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:48PM (#21415300)
Caring for the well-being of imprisoned asylum seekers is not virtue-signalling.

It says more about your own morals that you think it is.

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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by cglace on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:58PM (#21415662)
How does removing a tool from ICE help improve the conditions of asylum seekers? At most it makes them pay for a different tool and makes the asylum seekers conditions worse. Unintended consequences...
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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by KyeRussell on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:04PM (#21415391)
Yes. It is quite literally taking action, as opposed to just acting as a "signal". Hell, a valuable Github engineer standing up against an ICE contract would probably do more for 'the cause' than their vote would.
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