Tech‑Worker Anti‑ICE Actions – Hundreds of employees at major tech firms sign petitions and internal letters demanding their companies cut ties with ICE and oppose Trump’s crackdown. #TechWontBuildIt #NoTechForICE #WorkersResist
#NoKings #Trump #DeleteMeta www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
Over 1,000 Google workers demand an end to contracts with ICE & CBP—refusing to let their labor fuel surveillance and state violence. That call must also include ending Google’s ties to Israel.
#TechWontBuildIt #DropICEContracts #DropProjectNimbus #Google #GazaGenocide #ICE #CBP #Gaza #AI
🛠️ Sasha Costanza-Chock’s work on #DesignJustice pushed us to ask: who designs, who decides, and who benefits?
From #TechWontBuildIt to design justice, it offers tools to build technology aligned with community needs and shared power.
designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ev26fjji...
I was supposed to give a simple discussion question answer for week 1 of this class and it turned into 1200 words that can be summed up as "AI" is about how the #techwontbuildit backlash scared the shit out of tech execs so they spent every moment since then to crush every bit of worker power ever
read Design Justice which is generally a good read, but was heartbreaking during the last chapter about #techwontbuildit and the positive impact that it had during trump 1. Before all the major corporations fired all of those people and gutted workers protections so they could build evil for trump 2
If you'd like to learn more about the history of tech workers organizing to hold their companies accountable, I wrote a bit about it here:
Directions for Future Work: From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice · designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ev26fjji...
Someone had a field day again at the coding office 🫣😅
#techwontbuildit
#TechWontBuildIt 🫣
Despite the myth that tech workers are apolitical, many of them are mobilizing for a more just world and actively resist building tech used for oppressive use, such as deportation or anti-gay or anti-trans measures.
Or they do stuff like this ☺️
"Lesson 1: Successful AI countergovernance emerges from strong interpersonal relationships and ad hoc coalitions.
This moment is about learning from spaces and movements outside of tech policy. Get to know how others organize. We can look to Tech Workers Coalition and #TechWontBuildIt movement."
This chapter, "From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice," sadly continues to be extremely relevant for tech workers, CS students, and all kinds of design professionals today:
designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ev26fjji...
LOL. This is how @hootsuite is behaving after its ICE contract scandal. Blaming "the media" for its own missteps. #TechWontBuildIt
A year ago, I resigned from Google. Given what's happened in the intervening year, I have zero regrets about leaving. #TechWontBuildIt
I often ask: how is it not religious or ethnic discrimination to demand that someone work on weapons or surveillance systems that target people sharing their religion or national/ethnic origin? #techwontbuildit twitter.com/dgorganize/status/118415...
Hey @chef employees, if you want to form a union rather than silently be complicit, you know where to find me and @techworkersco. #techwontbuildit
Because the law is ~always~ the fair and just thing, and governments would ~never~ commit human rights abuses "authorized by law". #techwontbuildit twitter.com/Bizitzarenjokoa/status/1...
Yes, workers have power when we stand together! #techwontbuildit #googlewalkout https://twitter.com/nilofer/status/1161328942017462272
For more information, see #TechWontBuildIt, @techworkersco, @endforcedarb, @GoogleWalkout, @DropDragonfly, @teamcoworker, and so many other resources. #EthicalCS
The programmer who implemented the VW emission hack was jailed, as were the execs. Why not in this case? Tech ethics is both an individual and collective responsibility, not nobody's responsibility. #techwontbuildit https://t.co/jM77oIC34y
Let us see whether my involvement in #TechWontBuildIt results in extra scrutiny when I pass through US immigration tomorrow, despite my Global Entry status and having broken no laws...
Anyone want to continue to defend their involvement with HSI contracts as "just stopping drug trafficking and criminal syndicates"?
HSI is directly involved in curtailing the First Amendment and the freedom of the press. #droppalantir #TechWontBuildIt https://t.co/umttuj1RSh
[ed: ACM Ethics Code reading club, anyone?]
Takeaways: anticipate broad, long-term impacts of the tech we create, reflect on the ethics of what we build (c.f. #techwontbuildit), engage with direct & indirect stakeholders, and act with good business practices. [fin] #QConLondon
Instead of preventing risk, manage it. Mitigate the effects of risk. How do we know where to innovate?
What happens when there's inequity in innovation, for instance? Healthcare is all good, but "what about Google's use of image recognition for war?" #QConLondon #techwontbuildit
I asked, and the answer is that yes, GitHub and LinkedIn employees are welcome to sign and I'm told that link will work if you're "connected to CorpNet" whatever that means :) #TechWontBuildIt twitter.com/MsWorkers4/status/109906...
No amount of increasing funding for spending makes these programs ethical. It's not just the pay, it's also the ethics that cause talented technologists to choose to not to work on the application of technology to warfare. #techwontbuildit
Don't beg. Demand. Workers have power. #TechWontBuildIt twitter.com/william_fitz/status/1072...
A group of current and former Google employees (including @lauralifts, @amrtgaber, @ireneista, @tariqajyusuf, and myself) wrote an op-ed in the @FT about #TechWontBuildIt and the danger of complicity with profiteering, human rights abuses, and nationalism. https://t.co/jXmDSpKYq2
Okay, you support us... but how many of you are willing to help H1B holders stay in the country, or help fired whistleblowers pay their rent?
Signing a petition is only a drop in the bucket compared to concrete actions of solidarity. (cc #TechWontBuildIt) https://t.co/NHSOB7jYfA
