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Right now your boss has no reason not to tell you- people at GitHub knew their software was being used to support ICE during the time in which families are bein
by TeaDrunk 6y ago
Right now your boss has no reason not to tell you- people at GitHub knew their software was being used to support ICE during the time in which families are being separated. People at Microsoft knew that Microsoft was having contracts with the military. Google engineers knew about Project Dragonfly.
Right now bosses don’t even have incentive to lie about it because no engineer is obligated to give a shit about the society they live in broadly.
- strken 6y agoThis is a good time to point out that a significant chunk of the population isn't opposed to working for the military, for ICE, or for defence contractors who make weapons; they don't view that work as unethical. Moreover, the origin of Silicon Valley, and indeed the entire internet, is DARPA contracts and weapons manufacturing. Any oath would either not be taken by those people, would be watered down so far as to be meaningless, or would require the entire industry to refuse to make weaponry. The first and second are ineffective and the third is ludicrous.