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From February 2. Sitting on the sidelines will also come back to bite them.

"Corporate tepidness is strategic and, according to those who work with CEOs, unlikely to change."

"CEOs are afraid of retaliation by the administration and backlash from activists who may feel statements in response to current events are either too “woke” or not full-throated enough. As a result, many companies are staying on the sidelines."

Inc: Why Most Corporate and Tech Chiefs Are Saying the Bare Minimum About Minneapolis https://www.inc.com/stephanie-mehta/why-most-corporate-and-tech-chiefs-are-saying-the-bare-minimum-about-events-in-minneapolis/91292559 @IncMagazine #BigTech #technofascism

@AAKL@infosec.exchange · 3 days ago

From February 2. Sitting on the sidelines will also come back to bite them.

"Corporate tepidness is strategic and, according to those who work with CEOs, unlikely to change."

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Stephen Edmonds

@popcorncx@aus.social · 3 days ago

Stephen Edmonds

@popcorncx@aus.social · 3 days ago

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 5 days ago

"GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote in an internal letter on Tuesday that the company plans to renew a contract worth $200,000 with ICE to license its GitHub Enterprise Server — an amount that Friedman called 'not financially material' for the company."

#ShirinGhaffary, 2019

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/9/20906605/github-ice-contract-immigration-ice-dan-friedman

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This reminds me of IBM supplying the Nazis with admin systems that helped them murder millions of people. Am I the only one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

#GitHub #ICE #TechnoFascism #IBM

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org · 6 days ago

"What we are witnessing in America is technofascism. This is fascism partnered with advanced surveillance technologies. And this is what we see playing out in Minneapolis in real time, and with one company playing a pre-eminent role: Palantir.

It’s not just Palantir. We’ve seen other data-harvesting monopolies and Silicon Valley companies paying homage to Trump: Meta and Google and OpenAI and Oracle and Amazon and Nvidia, many of which have financial and other links to Thiel. Palantir is the very tip of this extremely poisonous spear.

What is happening in Minneapolis is a trial balloon. It’s where Trump is testing the limits of his power. That includes his ability to suppress dissent, to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, to break people’s will. And surveillance is at the heart of this.

It’s no coincidence that ICE officers wear masks. For them, privacy is impunity. That’s what the killing of Alex Pretti showed last week: that no one would be held to account. But for everyone else, there was another lesson: that there is nowhere to hide.

Personal data is the key to Trump’s political project. It’s an essential part of ICE’s work, the foundation for what is now under construction, and Minneapolis is where you can see it being built: an authoritarian surveillance state."

https://www.thenerve.news/p/technofascism-us-america-fascism-trump-palantir-peter-thiel-uk-nigel-farage-reform

#USA #Trump #Palantir #TechnoFascism #Fascism #UK #Reform #ICE #Surveillance #PoliceState