Tech industry should stand up and speak out against injustice

Back in November 2016, I wrote about the “mixed signals” tech companies were sending in response to the presidential election. How GrubHub’s then-CEO Matt Maloney quickly and forcefully spoke out against bigotry and hatred, and how IBM’s Ginny Rometty went instead for a strategy of appeasement.

I’ve also written about the tech industry’s failures to consider their moral and ethical responsibility to ensure technology is used to create a more just, equal, and safe society. And I’ve called for software engineers to adopt a code of ethics when faced with, for example, being asked to build a Muslim registry. Or to facilitate the separation of migrant children from their parents.

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