The same tech companies that can’t be bothered to do anything about the nazis on their platforms, were sure quick to remove a list of ICE employees scraped from Linkedin:
Both the GitHub database and the Medium post outlining the project are no longer available. Lavigne said in an email that “Medium suspended the post because they felt it was doxing.” The Medium page now simply reads “unavailable,” while the GitHub page says “this repository has been disabled.” Twitter accounts that were posting the information were also suspended.
It’s not doxxing if it’s from Linkedin, put up by these people themselves, presumably proud to work for an organisation that rips children from their parents’ arms and puts them in concentration camps. But it makes a good excuse for tech companies that either profiting of nazis or loath to stand up to the Trump regime. It’s a good example of why it’s important to own your own web spaces and not depend on the benevolence of nazi friendly companies. Twitter, Facebook, Google and nerd friendly spaces like Github or Medium in the end will always side with power, you cannot depend on them ever doing the right thing. So it’s good to see people deciding to host this information themselves, keeping the raw information available.
If you work for ICE, you’re complicit in what are clearly crimes against humanity, on a par with what was done in nazi Germany. You don’t deserve to do so and not pay a price for it, as DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen found out when she went for dinner at a Mexican (!) restaurant the other day. Resign, quit your job, go do something useful with your life.
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