Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rights abuses in the U.S
This article is fairly silly.<p>&gt; “We refuse to participate in the creation of databases of identifying information for the United States government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin.”<p>National origin - don&#x27;t you have to declare what country you were born in to visit&#x2F;emigrate to the United States? This is trying to legislate intent, which fails miserably. One thing we&#x27;ve seen is that if the database&#x2F;tool exists, it&#x27;ll be used in ways that nobody had ever thought of before.<p>&gt; I’m not one of the people who seriously believes that the cost of deporting millions of people will deter the Trump administration from doing it (one easy way to reduce costs: don’t deport people humanely). But history tells us that, whether you do it humanely or not, this kind of large-scale human rights abuse<p>I like how she goes straight from deportation to large-scale human rights abuse. If you deport illegal immigrants (regardless of national origin or faith), you&#x27;re enforcing the law. Period, point blank. To stretch that into human rights abuse is far-fetched at best.