Okay so, I’m gonna rant about github a little bit, to the surprise of no one
Github has claimed that if they don’t provide services to ICE, then the lives of ICE’s victims will be *worsened*, somehow
Github has claimed that if they don’t provide services to ICE, then the lives of ICE’s victims will be *worsened*, somehow
I could maybe buy this argument in the case of someone who supplies food or medicine: a concentration camp with no food is in fact even worse than a concentration camp with regularly scheduled food deliveries
But what does github sell? Software. What does software do?:
But what does github sell? Software. What does software do?:
Software makes things more efficient. Software makes things scale. Software lets you do more with less budget.
All things that are kinnnnnnnnnd of bad in the context of an organization famous for committing human rights violations
All things that are kinnnnnnnnnd of bad in the context of an organization famous for committing human rights violations
In other words, @github selling ICE software only enables ICE to do more of the things that everyone really wishes ICE would stop doing. There is no benefit for the victims if ICE can victimize them more efficiently. It’s an utterly hollow justification.
I feel like this point has been made a billion times, but it clearly hasn’t sunk in for @github yet so I’ll say it yet again: IBM made the machinations of the holocaust more efficient by selling to Nazis and WE SHOULD MAYBE LEARN A CLUE FROM THAT INCIDENT
