USA: Tech firm staffers refuse to work for Trump

On 14 December Reuters reported that approximately 100 employees of American technology firms have pledged not to aid President-elect Donald Trump create a database of people according to their religion or to deport people en masse. The signatories to the open letter are employed by Google, Twitter and other firms.
The authors of the letter refer to the remarks Trump made about deporting immigrants and Muslims during his campaign. They compare his proposals to the Holocaust or to the interment of American citizens of Japanese origin during the Second World War.
"We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies. We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable.," the pledge reads.
Trump, during his campaign, clashed several times with the bosses of tech firms from Silicon Valley with whom he disagreed on questions of immigration and Government controls over the flow of information. The leading representatives of those firms met last week with Trump in New York to clarify their stances.
Don't miss:
- Oksana Marafioti, successful American author with Romani roots, visits Czech Republic
- Czech right-wing extremists arguing over why racist from USA didn't speak at anti-EU demo
- USA: Controversy over conservative radio host's Nazi-like salute at the close of her RNC speech
- USA: Protests against police violence continue, resulting in hundreds of arrests
- USA: African-American sniper kills five white police officers in Dallas after two African-American civilians killed by police elsewhere
- Prarthna Johri: Being an American in Prague is a curious thing
- USA: Neo-Nazis, racist KKK clash with opponents in California at demonstration, nine hospitalized
- White Americans said to view racism as a zero-sum game
Related articles:
- COMMENTARY: Trump's bucket of filth
- USA: Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, QAnon followers and racist supporters of white supremacy attacked Congress to support Trump
- USA: Extremist supporters of Trump attack Capitol building, disrupt joint session of Congress, four dead, media and world leaders call it an attack on democracy
- Czech ultra-nationalist MP could evade prosecution for calling immigrant Muslims an "invasive species"
- Commentary: Time for a European Union Army
- Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist, to attend ceremony at Auschwitz Memorial marking Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
- UK court sentences neo-Nazis for threats against Prince Harry because of his marriage to Meghan Markle
- Slovak football tournament brings together diplomats, Roma and politicians for the fifth time
- Romani athlete Dominik Oračko of the Czech Republic wins two gold medals and one silver at the Youth World Weightlifting Championships
- USA: Shooter at synagogue in Pittsburgh remanded into custody without bail
- Italian Police evict almost 400 Romani people from homes they have lived in since 2005, European Commission says it cannot take legal action
- USA: High school students protest school shootings, demand stricter controls on guns
Tags:
Donald Trump, Prezidentské volby v USA, USA, XenofobieHEADLINE NEWS
