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>>Xordev+(OP)
Is GitHub a hug part of what ICE ... does?

Personally I wouldn't want to work for a company actually detaining people, but call me terrible but I'm not sure I'd feel the same about letting them pay to host some code...

>>duxup+1h
Maybe it's a spectrum thing, and everyone has a line they don't want to cross. There are people and organizations that don't align with my beliefs, but sure, it's cool they use my tools.

However, would you be ok with Hitler hosting code on your service if it contributed in some small way to genocide? That _does_ make me feel ick. Tacit support by large numbers of "not really effected" people is what made the holocaust and slavery and jim crow, etc, possible.

I'm not comparing ICE to Violent White Supremacy... but it's worth staying informed and revisiting our own boundaries as the situation changes.

Skin color, nationality and ethnicity are playing a huge role in how we're treating people right now, and the spectrum of human<>inhumane is getting wider and wider with tacit support :-(

>>diN0bo+4k
North Korea/China/<insert oppressive regime> uses Linux. Does that make Linus feel ick and want to take some sort of measures to prevent it? I hope not.

Focus on making great tools. Don't worry about who might use them. That's someone else's job. If Craftsman starts trying to vet customers so nobody buying their hammers can use them to build KKK meeting houses, they will now be pressured to deny their tools to whomever the capricious demands of the internet mob dictate.