GitHub doubles down on its ICE contract, saying cancellation could “hurt” the immigrants that “we all want to help” in internal memo, amid rising employee anger
When GitHub Chief Executive Nat Friedman announced on Oct. 9 his company would donate half a million dollars …
@latimes 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/...
Since it's now appeared in print, I might as well say it here - I've resigned from GitHub and my last day will be tomorrow. Doing business with ICE is not okay. https://twitter.com/...
NEW: Github is doubling down on its defense of its ICE contract, saying cancelling it “could actually hurt the very people we all want to help,” in a memo @latimes obtained. Employees are frustrated & one resigned on Monday over the continued work with ICE https://www.latimes.com…
“but if we stopped taking all this money to aid in this massive violation of human rights, it'd be worse because it'd keep happening and we wouldn't have that money” -github https://twitter.com/...
This is silly. It's true that many corporate policy changes purported to benefit marginalized people end up backfiring and harming marginalized people. But canceling a $200k contract with ICE just ain't one of them and it's absurd to claim otherwise https://twitter.com/...
Github bosses claim in this story that nonprofits want ICE to have better tech. We can assure you that is not the case. ICE must be abolished & those responsible for human rights abuses brought to justice. Thank you @sophaskins & Github workers for speaking out. #NoTechForICE htt…
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/...