News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract. Parent comment

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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]