#techwontbuildit — Public Fediverse posts
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If you'd like to learn more about the history of tech workers organizing to hold their companies accountable, I wrote a bit about it here: Directions for Future Work: From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice · designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ev26fjji...
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This chapter, "From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice," sadly continues to be extremely relevant for tech workers, CS students, and all kinds of design professionals today: designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ev26fjji...
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@gobborg As a senior in college I refused a second interview with #Raytheon to make round circuit boards to go into missles. I now make round circuit boards to go into microphones for #shure incorporated. #techwontbuildit
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@gobborg As a senior in college I refused a second interview with #Raytheon to make round circuit boards to go into missles. I now make round circuit boards to go into microphones for #shure incorporated. #techwontbuildit
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@gobborg As a senior in college I refused a second interview with #Raytheon to make round circuit boards to go into missles. I now make round circuit boards to go into microphones for #shure incorporated. #techwontbuildit
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@msuriar I'm a Unite member since project Maven and #TechWontBuildIt days
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@msuriar I'm a Unite member since project Maven and #TechWontBuildIt days
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@msuriar I'm a Unite member since project Maven and #TechWontBuildIt days
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Once upon a time there was a #TechWontBuildIt movement, what happened to it?
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Once upon a time there was a #TechWontBuildIt movement, what happened to it?
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LOL. This is how @hootsuite is behaving after its ICE contract scandal. Blaming "the media" for its own missteps. #TechWontBuildIt
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Much irony. @github, drop ICE. #TechWontBuildIt #NoTechForIce
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A year ago, I resigned from Google. Given what's happened in the intervening year, I have zero regrets about leaving. #TechWontBuildIt
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i4tfenpfog244rxry5uz4vtk/post/3lfn6sjxxhk2i -
I often ask: how is it not religious or ethnic discrimination to demand that someone work on weapons or surveillance systems that target people sharing their religion or national/ethnic origin? #techwontbuildit https://twitter.com/dgorganize/status/1184154485310021634
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imho a plurality of ethically-non-neutral licenses could flourish and work...but most likely with the backing of a cross-employer tech worker's union.
consider it like badges--different union members might support different sets of software licenses--maybe there's some floor for union membership like #techwontbuildit/legally defined human rights, but some members might only work with carbon-neutral orgs and others might not
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Hey @chef employees, if you want to form a union rather than silently be complicit, you know where to find me and @techworkersco. #techwontbuildit
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Because the law is ~always~ the fair and just thing, and governments would ~never~ commit human rights abuses "authorized by law". #techwontbuildit https://twitter.com/Bizitzarenjokoa/status/1173079476831490050
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Yes, workers have power when we stand together! #techwontbuildit #googlewalkout https://twitter.com/nilofer/status/1161328942017462272
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For more information, see #TechWontBuildIt, @techworkersco, @endforcedarb, @GoogleWalkout, @DropDragonfly, @teamcoworker, and so many other resources. #EthicalCS
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@chartier on the other hand, #TechWontBuildIt movement is there for people who *do* stop and question
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The programmer who implemented the VW emission hack was jailed, as were the execs. Why not in this case? Tech ethics is both an individual and collective responsibility, not nobody's responsibility. #techwontbuildit https://t.co/jM77oIC34y
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Let us see whether my involvement in #TechWontBuildIt results in extra scrutiny when I pass through US immigration tomorrow, despite my Global Entry status and having broken no laws...
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Anyone want to continue to defend their involvement with HSI contracts as "just stopping drug trafficking and criminal syndicates"? HSI is directly involved in curtailing the First Amendment and the freedom of the press. #droppalantir #TechWontBuildIt https://t.co/umttuj1RSh
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[ed: ACM Ethics Code reading club, anyone?] Takeaways: anticipate broad, long-term impacts of the tech we create, reflect on the ethics of what we build (c.f. #techwontbuildit), engage with direct & indirect stakeholders, and act with good business practices. [fin] #QConLondon
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Instead of preventing risk, manage it. Mitigate the effects of risk. How do we know where to innovate? What happens when there's inequity in innovation, for instance? Healthcare is all good, but "what about Google's use of image recognition for war?" #QConLondon #techwontbuildit
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I asked, and the answer is that yes, GitHub and LinkedIn employees are welcome to sign and I'm told that link will work if you're "connected to CorpNet" whatever that means :) #TechWontBuildIt https://twitter.com/MsWorkers4/status/1099066343523930112
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No amount of increasing funding for spending makes these programs ethical. It's not just the pay, it's also the ethics that cause talented technologists to choose to not to work on the application of technology to warfare. #techwontbuildit
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Don't beg. Demand. Workers have power. #TechWontBuildIt https://twitter.com/william_fitz/status/1072713562638798848
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A group of current and former Google employees (including @lauralifts, @amrtgaber, @ireneista, @tariqajyusuf, and myself) wrote an op-ed in the @FT about #TechWontBuildIt and the danger of complicity with profiteering, human rights abuses, and nationalism. https://t.co/jXmDSpKYq2
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This is what we've built :( it's too late to say #TechWontBuildIt here, instead we need to talk about how to repair the damage after it's already too late. https://twitter.com/semaforben/status/1056678156525076480
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Also, workers organizing and coming together in solidarity *is* an immune response. Enough is enough. #TechWontBuildIt
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Video for the closing keynote @EmilyGorcenski and I gave at #SREcon EMEA is posted to YouTube. #TechWontBuildIt https://youtu.be/8Dro0mreAxk
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I'm looking forward to @RobotLaunch's talk on ethical robotics and AI up next at #LWTSummit. [ed: maybe the folks at #TechWontBuildIt will want to listen in too!]
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"How can we ensure technology advances human rights? We need to ensure that the products we build are built from a rights-based framework." [ed: #TechWontBuildIt!!!!] "We can bend the moral arc of the tech universe towards justice." --@MalikaSaadaSaar #LWTSummit
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So, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM employees [and Amazon employees], let's hear some noise for #TechWontBuildIt? https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1031958803128807424
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"[Workers] want a seat at the table where decisions are made. They want to help determine how the technologies are built – and if they’re even built in the first place." YES #TechWontBuildIt https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1027545076812210177
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Remember that we all have choices about engineering ethics and industrial action. Yes, I'm talking to my fellow coworkers *and* to Twitter employees. #TechWontBuildIt https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/1027250487853084672
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Sanitized slides for my #WSC2018Conf talk on Organizing for Your Ethical Principles: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWQwuNTZV5M7LhsFFiXUdS6d4oa5N74y/view?usp=sharing Hope folks have a look at the resource links, etc. and find it useful. Happy organizing! #TechWontBuildIt
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#techwontbuildit The latest technologies promise cops the ability to whip out a smartphone, take a snapshot of a passerby, and instantly learn if that person is in an immigration or gang database. https://theintercept.com/2018/07/29/firstnet-att-surveillance/
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Okay but we need to have a conversation about Free software that can be used to facilitate surveillance as well. #TechWontBuildIt https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1022926120478490624
