A new kind of labor movement in Silicon Valley?
This &quot;movement&quot; is not nearly as broad-based as the combination of loud online activism and press coverage suggests. The current social-media-fueled frenzied environment has a way of amplifying extreme views, and the concrete policy propodals from the &quot;ethics&quot; camp are extreme indeed.<p>It is not &quot;unethical&quot;, for example, among the huge majority of the population, to cooperate with law enforcement in matters of immigration --- but to listen to advocates, cloud hosting for these organizations is beyond the pale. Every proposal I&#x27;ve seen has a similar character. To these people, &quot;ethics&quot; isn&#x27;t about the timeline virtues of honesty and integrity. Instead, it&#x27;s deplatforming your ideological opponents, because in activist world, the only explanation for disagreement is intellectual or moral defect.<p>This whole effort is a thinly-disguised political power play, and large socially-important infrastructure companies should not play politics. These companies serve too important a role in society to allow themselves to be weilded as political tools by a loud and angry few.