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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by NE2z2T9qi on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:14PM (#23529916)
I guess when they start administering ideological purity tests at the bagel shop, I'll know who to thank. After all, providing any type of sustenance or service to a person with the wrong political beliefs helps enable their wrong-ness, doesn't it?
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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by tsimionescu on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:39PM (#23530358)
Equating government contracts to service at a bagel shop is naive at best.
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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by mtgp1000 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:41PM (#23531266)
You're right - they affect the livelihoods of far more people.
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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by tsimionescu on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:08PM (#23532994)
Sure, that's one difference.

The other is that it usually takes serious labor and negotiation to land a government contract. It's not like ICE went to some Web UI and bought GitHub Enterprise with a company credit card, and now we're asking GitHub/MS to ban them from the e-store.

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