Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans To Renew ICE Contract

'GitHub CEO Nat Friedman explained why the company plans to renew a
contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), even
though he and others at GitHub oppose ICE's policy of separating
children from parents at the border, Motherboard reported on
Wednesday, citing an internal GitHub email. From a report:

The email shows the continuing debate within the tech industry about
whether companies should work specifically with ICE, and comes as a
host of other companies have dealt with employee protests over
corporate involvement with ICE. "In August, the GitHub leadership team
learned about a pending renewal of our product by the U.S. Immigration
& Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Since then, we have been talking
with people throughout the company, based on our own personal concerns
and those raised by Hubbers," Friedman's email reads, referring to
GitHub employees. Evan Greer, deputy director at activism group Fight
for the Future tweeted a copy of the email on Tuesday. Motherboard
also separately obtained a copy of the email from a source inside
GitHub. The product up for renewal is a license of GitHub Enterprise
Server, an on-premises deployment of GitHub that customers can run on
their own server, according to the email. ICE originally bought a
license in April, 2016.'

-- source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/10/09/1557245

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