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by doggydogs94 2463 days ago
You would be a fool to hire this guy after this stunt.
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What stunt? He removed an open source library from his own personal account because he felt the nazis shouldn't be using his software. It's kinda like when IBM sold the nazis hardware to keep track of the Jews.
It’s also worth noting that the same result would have happened if I’d died. My will requests the immediate deletion of “all Internet accounts”. Such an action (deleting my GitHub account) would have had a very similar result.
Detaining and deporting people illegally crossing a border is far, far from comparable to the deliberate extermination an religious minority. There are good objections to make regarding treatment of migrants at the border, but this kind of extreme hyperbole seriously cuts away at the credibility of those arguments.
You would be a fool to buy things from Chef after they show such a trivial vulnerability.
You would be a fool to rely open-source software with no local copies.
It's also pretty short-sighted because ICE does some uncontroversial things (border crossings, customs), and a lot of the flak they've been getting is from actions pushed down to the from the administration. Now, they're also not known for being defenders for human--or even constitutional--rights.

It seems more effective to donate $2,800 to pick-a-democrat. Or Mark Sanford.

While border crossings and customs are themselves not controversial for merely existing, how they are administered is definitely a source of controversy.
I am pretty sure that guy bas been doing well enough that he could retire fairly successfully at this point if he really wanted to.