Tech Solidarity: Never Again pledge

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Suzanne Johnson <fuhn () pobox com>
Date: Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:01 PM
Subject: Tech Solidarity: Never Again pledge
To: DAVID J. FARBER <farber () gmail com>














Tech workers have perspective different from their leaders...




https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/24/silicon-valley-fights-donald-trump-peter-thiel-palantir




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These gatherings are already proving to be important incubators

for grassroots initiatives. The inaugural Tech Solidarity meeting

in San Francisco helped produce the Never Again <http://neveragain.tech/>
pledge, a public declaration

by tech workers that they will refuse to build a database

identifying people by race, religion, or national origin. The

pledge went live on 13 December – the day before Silicon Valley’s

top executives made the pilgrimage to Trump Tower to sit down for

a summit
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/14/donald-trump-tech-summit-immigration-automation>

with the president-elect.






The organizers of the pledge are keenly aware of their industry’s

history. The Never Again site refers to IBM’s well-documented role
<https://mic.com/articles/142991/edwin-black-ibm-nazi-holocaust-history> in

providing the punch-card machines that streamlined the Holocaust –

a history the company has never fully acknowledged or apologized

for. Which makes it all the more chilling that IBM has gone out of

its way to court Trump since his victory. Days after the election,

IBM’s CEO, Ginni Rometty, wrote a congratulatory letter
<https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/ibm-ceo-personally-offers-companys-services-to-donald-trump/>
to

the president-elect personally offering her company’s services to

his administration.




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