Hypothesis: doing business with the current US government/administration still is taking a side.
Your company is not being "neutral" and "separating your own ethics from that of your customers" nor is "tech is apolitical" a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Not when you know what your customer is using your products and services for.
Not perfectly sure what follows from that for individual employees.
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@larsmb You tell me… Are you starting an ethical company, or know a friend?
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@ptesarik Some are doing pretty good, or at least not all are equally bad.
Igalia comes to mind as one of the former ones.
But yes, I've been giving that a lot more thought over the years. It's definitely why I've turned down Meta or AWS. That'd be too irreconcilable with my own values.
My current role is pretty shielded, shareholder primacy affects us all though.
Individual action isn't enough to achieve systemic change though.
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@larsmb You know, individuals can organize. This freedom is still guaranteed by the #constitution (both in Germany and in Czechia). I can imagine it may not last forever, so what about getting organized NOW?
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@ptesarik In the context of employment and labor, one form of organization would be unions.
They're very unpopular in the IT world though, not just with C experts.
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