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by Goladus 2392 days ago
At what point is it appropriate for employees to start sabotaging GitHub b/c they dislike the ICE contract?

When they have good enough reason to believe that breaking up the contract will achieve a positive end that is worth the violation of freedom of association and precedence for using coercive, destructive and potentially illegal methods.

In this case, I don't think any of the activists can really articulate the goal they think would be reasonably achieved, beyond having a vague personal feeling of satisfaction for making ICE's job harder and punishing their employer for doing something they didn't like. In fact, it seems to me as if temporarily crippling ICE's software development workflow is not likely to improve the situation on the ground for migrants at all.

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That's a good point. If everything we do gets politicized, then that'll pretty much grind productivity to a halt, and our society will devolve into a bunch of warring factions. There's probably good grounds for keeping most domains apolitical.