Are you a Robot?
… “A Man-baby is in front of me”
🚨 #TechWeenieAlert🚨/ #Facebook / #Meta / #SarahWynnWilliams exposé on #Zuckerberg
<https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf > (paywall) / <https://archive.md/tDGNI>
“Keep your head down. Compartmentalize. Don’t make trouble.
That’s what many #TechWorkers are taking their #CEOs’ strategic silence to mean, amid an immigration crackdown across the US by the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security. Widespread #violence by federal agents has sparked #protests in Minneapolis and across the country. One month after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, and two weeks after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, the majority of tech CEOs have remained tight-lipped.
Internally, workers from several companies describe a #culture of #silence and #fear — and trepidation over what kind of future they’re helping to build.”
#tech / #authoritarian / #oligarch / #TechWeenie <https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/876558/tech-workers-ice-resistance-google-microsoft-clear-abbott> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/OczFC>
Tech workers at larger companies like Microsoft, Google, and YouTube, as well as smaller ones like Abbott and CLEAR, describe a fear-based culture on speaking out against ICE and the Trump administration.
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