Tell Microsoft to drop ICE as a client or lose us as GitHub users
Earlier this year Microsoft proudly announced that it was working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to "deliver such services as cloud-based identity and access" in order to "help employees make more informed decisions faster" and "utilize deep learning capabilities to accelerate facial recognition and identification." (Emphasis added.)
As members of the open source community and free software movement who embrace values of freedom, liberty, openness, sharing, mutual aid, and general human kindness, we are horrified by and strongly object to the Trump administration's policies of detainment, denaturalization, deportation, and family separation as carried out by ICE.
With Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, many in the GitHub community were fearful of what new ownership from a company once openly hostile to open source would spell for the future of GitHub, and many of those people chose to leave the site rather than entrust Microsoft with their software. Those of us who remained, because we were willing to give Microsoft a chance to become a steward of the open source movement, will not continue to do so should Microsoft continue to abet the trampling of human and civil rights by this administration and its law enforcement agencies.
We call on Microsoft to end its relationship with ICE and any federal agencies engaged in enforcing the cruel policies of this administration, which is destroying families and jailing asylum seekers, undocumented long-term residents, and even naturalized citizens under threat of deportation. Or, we will simply take our projects elsewhere.
Signed,
- Lea Verou @leaverou (MIT, W3C CSS Working Group, Prism, Mavo, Dabblet)
- Sindre Sorhus @sindresorhus (AVA, XO, Awesome)
- Thomas Fuchs @madrobby (Zepto, Script.aculo.us, Ruby on Rails)
- Laurie Voss @seldo (LGBTQ.technology)
- Jamie Kyle @jamiebuilds (Babel, Yarn, Flow, Parcel, Marionette, Lerna)
- Orta Therox @orta (Artsy, CocoaPods, Danger)
- Rick Waldron @rwaldron (Ecma/TC39, Johnny-Five, Bocoup)
- Anna Henningsen @addaleax
- Daniel Sieradski @selfagency
- Nicholas Sahler @nicksahler
- Gavin Morgan @quavmo
- Abram Stern @aphid
- Libby Horacek @emhoracek
- Jeremy Low @jeremylow
- Jacob Beard @jbeard4
- Joshua Cook @joshuacook
- Tomas Lycken @tlycken
- Tobi Schäfer @p3k
- Mijndert Stuij @mijndert
- John Hann @unscriptable
- Thijs van der Vossen @fingertips
- Marc Hinse @MadeMyDay
- Frank Bültge @bueltge
- Bernard Lin @bernard-lin
- vøid @makmm
- Igor Buyanov @artifex404
- Peter Benjamin @petermbenjamin
- Eric Sandoval @emsando
- David Seidenberg @davidseid
- Jon Kuperman @jkup
- Elin Angelov @zetxx
- Titus Wormer @wooorm
- Mikkel Malmberg @mikker
- Yusuff Adeyemo @yusadolat
- Filipe Kiss @filipekiss
- Murilo Prestes @maclovin
- Fabio Fernandes @fabiofl
- Valentin Iovene @tgy
- Jordan Danford @jdanford
- Shawon Ashraf @ShawonAshraf
- Aaron Lichtman @alichtman
- Vinicius Rodrigues @Suburbanno
- Jason Palmer @palmerj3
- Danilo Guanabara @danguafer
- Alex Rapley @arapl3y
- Shealan Forshaw @shealan
- Sam Lloyd @binchicken
- Elijah Cruz @elijahcruz12
- Michael Bishop @miklb
- Esteban Rocha @Esteban-Rocha
- Aung Naing Oo @o92
- zer0crash @CyberSpace7
- Alexander Wallin @alexanderwallin
- lfuelling @lfuelling
- Nicolai Süper @nicolaisueper
- Rodrigo Bermúdez @rodrigobdz
- Jasper Haggenburg @jpunt
- Martin Šťovíček @stovmascript
- Petter Karlsrud @ptrkrlsrd
- Emanuele Stoppa @ematipico
- Adrien Antoine @adriantoine
- Apostolos Christodoulou @tol-is
- Arthur Guiot @arguiot
- Antonio Nesic @mutantkeyboard
- Christian Petersen @fnky
- Jonah Meijers @theonejonahgold
- Amal Karunarathna @r3b311i0n
- Denys Vitali @DenysVitali
- Daksh Miglani @DakshMiglani
- Allen Hai @coetry
- Mark Rabey @MarkRabey
- Capi Etheriel @barraponto
- Josh Waller @mdxprograms
- Lisa Lamontagne @llamontagne
- Charles Josephs @darkmyst
- Daniel Dyssegaard Kallick @keevie
- Olayemi H. Ibrahim @yobroyem0
- Jim Kang @deathmtn
- Dale Weiler @graphitemaster
- Brian Yang @brianyang
- Benji Bilheimer @benjibee
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