Tech workers urge CEOs to condemn ICE

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/tech-workers-ceos-ice

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  1. EscapeFacebook on

    There is no federal law that says you can’t have a gun at a protest.

    There is no state law in Minnesota that says you can’t have a gun at a protest.

    No one asked for his ID, no one asked for his permit, they didnt wait that long.

    They disarmed this man by removing his gun from his holster and then executed him.

  2. Unions would be where you do that sort of thing.

    The vague idea of any company would be doing moral shit is just a PR stunt or related to tax shenanigans. 

  3. Sure. Go look at all the tech companies that vowed to stop contributing to Republicans after Jan 6th. How’d that work out?

  4. independent_observe on

    The oligarchy fully supports this Administration’s actions. The Tech companies fully support protecting child molesters instead of prosecuting them and protecting children.

    THIS is the message that should be plastered everywhere.

  5. currently__working on

    We should all be urging our podcasters, our twitch/youtube streamers, any non-traditional entertainment outlet – to do the same. We need to shut down the attention economy, that could be a focus on the strike we need to get going. They can all start to coordinate messaging to their audiences that we’re not putting up with this shit in our country anymore.

  6. They were in on it immediately, didn’t even try to resist.

    Consider a company like Apple – hundreds of billions of dollars in cash in the bank, access to the very best lawyers around, directly targeted by policies such as Trump’s tariffs and DEI crackdowns that were blatantly illegal. Yet did they challenge it in court? Not at all. They rolled over and tried to appease him, donated millions to his inauguration, gave him money for his ballroom, gave him golden trophies and all the rest of it.

    Remember when they fought the FBI in court so they wouldn’t have to break the encryption on a suicide bombers iPhone? They stood up to the government because strong encryption is a civil liberties issue. Does anyone think they’d stand up to Trump if he made the same demand?

    And now, when people are desperate, they would love to strike but literally cannot afford to. Isn’t it time for these companies to finally give back to the communities they’ve been taking so much from all these years? They can find you when they want trillions of dollars in tax breaks and government contracts, and they’ve got money for Trump when he wants a new ballroom, so where are they when the American people are looking for help to save their country?

    I’ll tell you where they are: they’re still trying to get everything they can out of this regime. They’re trying to break down data privacy laws, stop states regulating AI data centres, use the US’s betrayal of its allies to get themselves exempted from EU regulations, and building the tools ICE uses to hunt you all down. While Alex Pretti was being executed by the state, Tim Cook was [headed to the White House for a private screening of a movie Amazon made about Melania](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tim-cook-attended-melanias-movie-050006216.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABliHZX6lk2pWTQlqx461jbfXvOAkfalkcDXpq0K_MKqt8FTTuXtEZPYbAgh60Dw837DiTQTJcOwixSJn-HkmSjDo3ByAJNPpGt9wuMBnfWahv6Wmn3Yf0dYqHMljvLv6vq5WSA3EHeiXOdphfHRHrq1KmgybCTv1NkC9IybBNiF).

  7. They won’t. While it’s impossible to know what they really think, it’s easy to see that not coddling the regime will lead to regulatory retaliation immediately and they don’t have the fortitude to endure the discomfort. I’d say they’re preserving jobs but they’re using AI as an excuse to lay off people they would have laid off anyway in bracing for economic downturn.

  8. MyAccountWasBanned7 on

    The same CEOs that went to the white house to watch the biopic on Trump’s immigrant wife?

    Those spineless fucks wouldn’t dare condemn anything daddy Trump does.

  9. Every CEO I’ve ever met would be in a dark money betting pool on how and when ICE kills the next person. Hell they’re probably in a country wide betting pool where the prizes are the kids they’re kidnapping at this point. 

  10. while im skeptical about general strikes working, and one in the tech industry would surely accelerate attempts at automation, boy it would be a thing to see the US tech industry grind to a halt because no one is at their desks keeping it running

  11. Why would they condemn the secret police that will protect their bunkers when the civil war starts?

  12. They expect those billionaires, who circlejerked Trump in the Oval Office to say something negative about Trump’s creation?

  13. I work at a major high tech company based in the US with offices world wide. We are starting to lose key talent as a direct result of ICE activity. People are moving back to India. We have offices in India, but not everyone leaving is looking to transfer within the company.

    Are others noticing a talent drain back to their home countries?

  14. Fuck Bezos. Fuck Zuck. Fuck em all. They show up at the White House table with talks of investing in America. Then profit billions from traffic to their sites sharing clear evidence of murder by ICE. Then just build their bunkers and jack off on their yachts and pretend like it’s not for the to comment on.

    No backbone. No morals. What a bunch of jagoffs.

  15. MaleficentPorphyrin on

    Tech workers should be actively sabotaging the firms they work for if they are a part of one of the large ones like Google, Apple, Palantir, Microsoft doesn’t need help, Amazon, etc.