Tell Silicon Valley: Refuse to build Trump's Muslim registry
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UPDATE (December 18, 11:16 ET): Google, Apple, Uber, and IBM have joined Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft in publicly stating they will not help Trump build a Muslim registry. Public pressure is working. Help move other tech companies by signing the petition.
On December 14, Donald Trump met with about a dozen of the world’s most powerful technology executives to discuss how they would work together during his term.
Trump has repeatedly stated his intention to build a “Muslim registry,” to track and harass people based on their religious beliefs -- his team even went so far as to cite Japanese-American internment camps as "precedent" for the registry. The tech executives in the meeting could help him carry out his tyrannical plans.
Donald Trump’s agenda threatens our communities and democracy. Silicon Valley cannot collude with him or make it possible for the worst of his threats to be carried out.
Tell tech companies: Publicly oppose Trump’s proposed Muslim registry and refuse to help him carry out his draconian agenda.
Major tech companies like Google and Apple have made it their business model to collect and store personal information about our lives, our social connections, our beliefs, and our habits. They have already colluded with the U.S. government to enable mass surveillance of their users. Now the Trump administration is planning to use data from tech companies to target and discriminate against an entire population of people.
There is precedent for collusion between a tyrannical government and American tech. During the Holocaust, American multinational corporations collaborated with the Nazis to help them design and execute the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people. Most notably, IBM built the machine that allowed Hitler to efficiently send millions of people to death camps.
Despite this history and Trump's Islamophobic, racist, misogynistic campaign, IBM's CEO personally offered the company's services to Trump just days after his electoral college win. When we say, "never again," tech companies must heed the call.
Tell tech companies: Publicly oppose Trump’s proposed Muslim registry and refuse to help him carry out his draconian agenda.
Prior to the tech summit at Trump Tower, The Intercept asked nine Silicon Valley companies if they would help Trump build a Muslim registry. Only Twitter refused.
After Daily Kos -- as part of a massive coalition effort comprised of more than two dozen organizations -- demanded other tech companies rule out helping Trump, Facebook and Microsoft publicly stated they wouldn't help build Trump's registry either. What's more, dozens of Silicon Valley employees pledged their resistance to the unethical use of tech.
America’s tech firms hold an unprecedented amount of power and can be a formidable opposition to Trump. Our safety and democracy hinges on our ability to disrupt Trump's plans on every level. Tech giants must be explicit in resisting Trump's overtures and refusing to help create his Muslim registry.
Tell tech companies: Publicly oppose Trump’s proposed Muslim registry and refuse to help him carry out his draconian agenda.
On December 14, Donald Trump met with about a dozen of the world’s most powerful technology executives to discuss how they would work together during his term.
Trump has repeatedly stated his intention to build a “Muslim registry,” to track and harass people based on their religious beliefs -- his team even went so far as to cite Japanese-American internment camps as "precedent" for the registry. The tech executives in the meeting could help him carry out his tyrannical plans.
Donald Trump’s agenda threatens our communities and democracy. Silicon Valley cannot collude with him or make it possible for the worst of his threats to be carried out.
Tell tech companies: Publicly oppose Trump’s proposed Muslim registry and refuse to help him carry out his draconian agenda.
Major tech companies like Google and Apple have made it their business model to collect and store personal information about our lives, our social connections, our beliefs, and our habits. They have already colluded with the U.S. government to enable mass surveillance of their users. Now the Trump administration is planning to use data from tech companies to target and discriminate against an entire population of people.
There is precedent for collusion between a tyrannical government and American tech. During the Holocaust, American multinational corporations collaborated with the Nazis to help them design and execute the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people. Most notably, IBM built the machine that allowed Hitler to efficiently send millions of people to death camps.
Despite this history and Trump's Islamophobic, racist, misogynistic campaign, IBM's CEO personally offered the company's services to Trump just days after his electoral college win. When we say, "never again," tech companies must heed the call.
Tell tech companies: Publicly oppose Trump’s proposed Muslim registry and refuse to help him carry out his draconian agenda.
Prior to the tech summit at Trump Tower, The Intercept asked nine Silicon Valley companies if they would help Trump build a Muslim registry. Only Twitter refused.
After Daily Kos -- as part of a massive coalition effort comprised of more than two dozen organizations -- demanded other tech companies rule out helping Trump, Facebook and Microsoft publicly stated they wouldn't help build Trump's registry either. What's more, dozens of Silicon Valley employees pledged their resistance to the unethical use of tech.
America’s tech firms hold an unprecedented amount of power and can be a formidable opposition to Trump. Our safety and democracy hinges on our ability to disrupt Trump's plans on every level. Tech giants must be explicit in resisting Trump's overtures and refusing to help create his Muslim registry.
Tell tech companies: Publicly oppose Trump’s proposed Muslim registry and refuse to help him carry out his draconian agenda.
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Publicly refuse to help the Trump administration build a national Muslim registry or to help advance his tyrannical agenda.