Silicon Valley tech worker was the Ukrainian mom lying dead on street in photo
If this sort of thing fails to wake up the SV tech industry that there <i>IS</i> a difference between democracy and authoritarian governments, and that the latter can NOT be trusted, believed, or worked with, I don&#x27;t know what will<p>Authoritarians, dictators, &amp; despots do not stop until they are stopped.  They do not make arguments or deals in good faith.  Just because it seems profitable now to deal with them, does not mean you are doing good.  You are doing harm by actively building up and supporting regimes that will kill you and threaten to kill all of us when it becomes convenient for them.  Supporting and platforming them out of some kind of high-minded ideals only gets us closer to this point.<p>It&#x27;s sickening.<p>It is past time that SV companies started actively working against authoritarians, instead of profiting from a willful blindness of false equivalence.<p>No, those governments are not equal.