What’s despicable? Do you review the politics of every customer? Does this vary from political wind to political wind?

Do ex felons get rejected? Does every Russian and Chinese national have to swear not to work for their governments?

No. Don’t get into that business. The people through politicians can set policies.

Fine, so the voters of California should start voiding the corporate charters of companies that engage with ICE, PRC, etc. I'm cool with that, too, but I suspect that simply putting pressure monetarily is a much more accurate and flexible banhammer to swing.

Corporations ARE political entities--at the state level, to boot. It's only recently that "corporations solely exist to make profit for shareholders" has perniciously taken root. Corporations used to have to at least acknowledge "the public good" in order to get a charter. People have forgotten this.

Perhaps it's time to bring it back.

It unquestionably bad for Github.

That it furthers your goals is not relevant to Github's accounting.

> It unquestionably bad for Github.

Is it?

Are there not people that will prefer to do business with companies that don't engage with such despicable entities? Are there not companies that specifically want to do business with those who engage such despicable entities? (Hint: there are several funds and private equity groups that do just that.)

However, Github's current actions certainly give me pause as to whether I should continue doing business with them--especially for $50,000. Really. $50,000. That's a price to be celebrated with an entity that kills children?

Yeah, I think I avoiding github just jumped up my priority list--a lot.