To be fair, I often ask myself how "grassroots" organizations like this really are. I mean there is obvious corporate interest in promoting certain technologies. .Net is pretty great that it wouldn't even need much advertising and in the time I did develop a lot on that platform was really nice. But I noticed a lack of technical voices or at least I did not find them. So some kind of outreach might be sensible.

If the family of Floyd asks me if I support BLM, I would answer yes and mean it. If a corporation signals that to me I very likely will not stand in unison with that. It feels like getting scammed and to be honest that is exactly what happened to some people that provided donations.

Do I support Russia with the invasion? Absolutely not, but I can acknowledge that western powers supplied weapons to the groups that removed the former government that happened to be close to Russia. Was that the will of the people? I don't know. Does it justify an invasion? Certainly not. But the only thing I can influence is that my country perhaps does not provide weapons to support a side of some form of civil war I do not know much about. I wish companies would think stronger of that. I don't expect any self-reflection, but if I have nothing sensible to offer aside blind obedience, perhaps the smarter move is to just shut up in general.

I see the same childish certainty that we saw before the Iraq war. I does not look any different to me.

> then the silence on anther matter also becomes a statement

I fully agree. While I might support the message in question, I cannot just think less of these companies and I certainly would want to restrict my dealings with them to a minimum. Iran was banned from SWIFT with threats of sanctions against it by the US. I don't agree that this should be a political issue and I am disappointed in the leadership of SWIFT that it would comply.