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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by userbinator on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:14PM (#21415441)
This politicisation of tech that's happened at a surprisingly rapid rate since a few years ago is scary, because it threatens to split the industry and maybe even eventually society into a number of opposing factions.
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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by legostormtroopr on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:52PM (#21415885)
I've said it before, and say it again StackOverflow has taken a huge nosedive sicne the "Time to take a stand"[1] post, where Joel stated openly that if you don't support open borders, you aren't welcome on StackOverflow.

[1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take...

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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by BeetleB on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:50PM (#21416132)
Can you point me to the part where he said that?
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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by istjohn on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:35PM (#21415815)
Everything is political.
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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by Ygg2 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:34PM (#21416078)
If everything is political, politics is just background noise.
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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by baggy_trough on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:28PM (#21416052)
A pernicious notion.
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