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Quote: "What I’ve learned from her is that keeping technology from ICE actively harms those vulnerable populations,” he wrote."

Let's assume Microsoft in general, and GitHub in particular will get their way and severe ties with ICE. Guess what's going to happen next?

a- Suddenly ICE is going to become a nice entity and everything going to be peachy

or

b- Chinese will supply the software instead, or worse, is going to be internally made by government, meaning NSA will have another wet dream come true

>>unnoui+(OP)
Added to that:

If Github/Microsoft start picking and choosing which agencies to host, I would say it's somewhat likely and understandable that they be blacklisted from future government contracts and contract renewals.

It's also somewhat likely that in such a case, as we have seen with the Huawei moves recently, the US government could halt sale/export of tooling to any other government.