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The private sector should actively refuse interactions especially with government! Especially when they serve multiple governments. I don't advocate companies taking social stances on politics, I am all against it. The people should be doing that, companies need to stay out of politics.

That said, this isn't mere politics. Actual humans can and are dying including children, the individuals at github/microsoft must excercise their conscious and act accordingly. Same applies to war. This isn't akin to refusing service to democracts or republicans but more like refusing service to organized criminals who also happen to be a government agency. All companies have a right and an obligation to refuse cooperation with a government agency that willfully causes death,torture and imprisonment without due process of innocent civilians. That is not a political stance.