Google just keeps firing all of its most ethical people, huh?
Google looks SO RIDICULOUS rn
I mean, in Google's defense, it's hard to remain a key player in global US military hegemony, integrate AI in drone assassination programs, and ALSO be ethical, so whats an information hegemon to do? theintercept.com/2019/03/01/goo…
"2018, more than four thousand Googlers organized a campaign for their company to drop Project Maven, a Department of Defense (DOD) contract to develop image-recognition systems for drone warfare" design-justice.pubpub.org/pub/ev26fjji/r…
It that plus over 1,100 signatories to the open letter organized by the International Committee for Robot Arms Control for Google leadership to *pretend* to drop the program.
We can go on, and on, and on. I support Timnit, and all Google workers who are mobilizing to transform the company from inside, while also working to understand the company's role in upholding global militarized capitalism, white supremacy, and the matrix of domination.
I believe that to transform our sociotechnical systems requires every level of action, every lever of power, deep movement building both inside and outside of firms, the state, the academy
Workers inside tech companies need to organize, mobilize, shift industry norms, employment practices, priorities, create new firms structured as cooperatives, develop tools and processes outside of capitalist reward structures,
At the same time organized movements need to place people in office who are willing to pass and enforce new laws to reign in the power of the tech sector, and establish regulatory bodies with teeth,
When the firms violate the law, as they do constantly, they need to be held accountable, through multiple mechanisms including antidiscrimination cases, class action, antitrust
Meanwhile we need to find creative ways to resource and grow the actually existing alternatives, like those emerging from the platform coop movement or the strategy of exit to community; those can be supported by individuals, municipalities, ultimately broader public spending
We don't need to choose between supporting those who are struggling to improve tech industry practices from inside, especially BW who have done so much and borne the brunt of the attacks and pushback, and supporting radical alternatives. Get u a movement that can do both!
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