The memo also gave some more details about Github's contract saying "ICE has set up instances within the Homeland Security Investigations arm, M&A, and ERO divisions." The co did not comment beyond referring us back to their original blogposthttps://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense …
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One employee, a staff engineer named Sophie Haskins, gave her notice on Monday specifically citing the contract and said Github “shows no indication of canceling the contract,” which she wrote was “morally unacceptable.”https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense …
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Sources say the employees are trying to figure out what their next move is & are considering turning to the open source community to apply pressure to leadership. But organizing a distributed/remote workforce comes with its challenges.https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense …
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This is just another example of the newfound sense of activism among tech workers, who are willing to publicly challenge their employers in an unprecedented way. Over the next month (& forever bc we love labor), we'll be looking closely at the last year of tech worker activism.
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Another detail in here: We saw internal slack messages showing sales staff appearing to celebrate a $56K upgrade to the ICE contract. The message read in part:
$56K UPGRADE AT DHS ICE
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GitHub execs: we heard from non profits that “one of the greatest challenges facing immigrants is a lack of technology at ICE and related agencies”
@RAICEStexas: Uh nohttps://twitter.com/raicestexas/status/1190021443179831297?s=21 …Prikaži ovu nit
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