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The first area to focus on is diversity. This has become a dogma in the tech world, and despite the fact that tech is one of the most meritocratic industries in the world, there are constant efforts to promote diversity at the expense of fairness, merit and competency. Examples:
USC's Interactive Media & Games Division cancels all-star panel that included top-tier game developers who were invited to share their experiences with students. Why? Because there were no women on the panel.
dailytrojan.com/2016/04/25/poi…
dailytrojan.com/2016/04/25/poi…
ElectronConf is a conf which chooses presenters based on blind auditions; the identity, gender, and race of the speaker is not known to the selection team. The results of that merit-based approach was an all-male panel. So they cancelled the conference. archive.is/YGhbr
Apple's head of diversity (a black woman) got in trouble for promoting a vision of diversity that is at odds with contemporary progressive dogma. (She left the company shortly after this incident.)
techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/app…
techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/app…
Also in the name of diversity, there is unabashed discrimination against men (especially white men) in tech, in both hiring policies and in other arenas. One such example is this, a developer workshop that specifically excluded men: gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-… 
The creator of the hit video game Assassin's Creed stated his position on hiring developers: "If the candidate has a dick, he’s not hired."
Of course, the biggest story showcasing SJW's influence in regards to the tech world is Google's firing of @JamesADamore, who shared a few scientifically based, reasonable ideas about how to improve diversity which disagreed with the progressive dogma. reason.com/archives/2017/…
Another area that has seen inroads by SJWs is insistence on "Codes of Conduct" (CoC) rules in open source projects. While they sound fine in theory, the reality is that it lets certain activists police the kind of people who are involved in a project. archive.is/s4PrY
This CoC trend has disturbed so many people, it's even pushed some top developers to leave projects that they have been heavily involved with from the very beginning.
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Here's a related controversy, where some Linux developers are threatening to pull their code from Linux due to objections to a CoC (scroll down to "The Controversy").
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More on the Linux Code of Conduct controversy here: motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
A controversy over the Code of Conduct and accepting pull requests from people of color erupted on the Django project: archive.is/UJhAD
An example of how Codes of Conduct are used to enforce ideology: GitHub removed a repository because the word "retard" was used: techdirt.com/articles/20150…
SJWs have often tried to get people dismissed from speaking engagements at conferences. When that doesn't work, they try to get the whole conference shut down. Here's one example where they tried to get a speaker booted, labeling him a misogynist: breitbart.com/tech/2017/05/3…
They also tried to shut down LambdaConf because they didn't approve of a speaker's politics (his talk wasn't going to be about politics, purely technical topics). When the conf organizers didn't agree to boot him, they went after the conference itself:
blog.erratasec.com/2016/04/tldr-o…
blog.erratasec.com/2016/04/tldr-o…
They had actually succeeded the year before in doing the same thing to him at a different conference:
slate.com/technology/201…
slate.com/technology/201…
Another area of influence is in how games are designed, with SJWs not approving of sexual imagery in games. A character in Overwatch had to be modified due to complaints that she was too sexualized:
pcgamer.com/overwatch-vict…
pcgamer.com/overwatch-vict…
A trivial example, but still illustrative of how the tech world is so sensitive to SJ concerns: Google actually changed the name of a new file compression format - the .bro format (short for 'Brotli') - because of complaints that it was offensive:
theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/goo…
theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/goo…
Another trivial, but instructive example: Apple and Adobe come under heavy criticism for doing an image manipulation demo at a conference that changed a picture of a woman to have a smile. petapixel.com/2015/09/10/app…
A more serious example: Two developers at a conference sharing a private joke about "dongles" end up being fired after a woman overhears them and complains:
techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-d…
techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-d…
Here's a story of a woman who faced the wrath of feminists for disagreeing about how best to help young girls who want to learn to code. She wanted to teach them programming, they wanted to teach the girls gender politics. medium.com/@marlene.jaeck…
We can also see just how far reaching SJWs influence in tech are from the fact that high level decision making bodies are supporting their nonsense: freebeacon.com/issues/feds-sp…
Another idiotic grant supporting SJW nonsense: freebeacon.com/politics/feds-…
There is also the very concerning issue of social media companies censoring and demonetizing figures who are saying things that go against the progressive dogma. @joerogan discussed that here:
Some more examples of tech companies blacklisting those who disagree with progressive ideas: chicksonright.com/blog/2016/10/1…
An ad supporting a pro-life candidate was banned on Facebook:
Discussion with sex researcher demonetized: facebook.com/DrDebraSoh/pho…
Here's another noteworthy case: a leading Drupal developer was kicked out of that community due to people discovering that he has some weird sexual kinks, even though not a single person within the community ever reported any misconduct from him. reason.com/blog/2017/04/1…
Underlying so much of this is the constant demonization of men in tech (it's actually an underlying thread within all SJ ideology, not just here). Here's a story of an active campaign to smear a tech luminary bec he doesn't conform to contemporary norms. medium.com/@Brad_Glasgow/…
Regarding how social media companies have taken the side of SJWs in the culture war, @marcorandazza at @Popehat spelled this out very clearly 3 years ago. It's only gotten worse since, IMHO. popehat.com/2016/01/11/twi…
On a lighter note, check out this award granted to Google for all the resources they've put into promoting diversity. elaineou.com/2017/09/23/2nd…
Reader responded to this thread saying that hes now required 2 comment his code with gender neutral pronouns. Reminded me of this: tech reporter replaces industry standard term "man-in-the-middle attack" with more inclusive "person-in-the-middle". imore.com/app-store-remo…
I'm reluctant to take anything related to emoji seriously, but even that topic shows the influence of social justice trends, as there are constant efforts to make emoji that are more diverse and inclusive. Consider the issue of skin colors in emoji: elischiff.com/blog/2016/5/10…
And then there's this effort at inclusivity, which may or may not be a joke. I'm really not sure. Poe's Law applies. independent.co.uk/life-style/foo…
And apparently, some women are really upset that the women's shoe emoji, and others depicting women's clothes, are totally sexist. mashable.com/2017/10/23/fla…
Some more examples of anti-male sentiment openly expressed at a tech conference a few months ago:
Another blatant demonstration of anti-white/male prejudice expressed by a prominent software developer.
That respected developer also railed against an author of a programming book because the subtitle of the book had the word "craftsman" in it.
