There are quite a few groups that place people into internships, and which work to promote people of demographics whose presence in tech is currently below what

There are quite a few groups that place people into internships, and which work to promote people of demographics whose presence in tech is currently below what would be expected from the same demographics' share of the overall population. I suppose if you want to argue that should be illegal, or that it should be illegal to use one of those places to source your interns, you can. But if you do that, you take away the "pipeline problem" response so many companies like to use to explain why they hire few/no female, black or hispanic people. In other words, to argue against this, you must also make the case that the "pipeline" feeding a particular company is a matter of that company's choices and that the company can be held responsible for the demographics coming out of that "pipeline". Which, if you really want to make that argument, go for it. But I think the average person who is upset by the idea of places like Outreachy or Code2040 will not want to follow all the way to that logical conclusion.