Major Open Source Project Revokes Access to Companies That Work with ICE

[Acblind]

"On Tuesday, developers behind Lerna revoked access for any company collaborating with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

 

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xbynx/major-open-source-project-revokes-access-to-companies-that-work-with-ice?utm_source=mbtwitter

 

and the original pull request: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616

 

The license reads:

The following license shall not be granted to the following entities or any
subsidiary thereof due to their collaboration with US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement ("ICE"):

- "Microsoft Corporation"
- "Palantir Technologies"
- "Amazon.com, Inc."
- "Northeastern University"
- "Ernst & Young"
- "Thomson Reuters"
- "Motorola Solutions"
- "Deloitte Consulting LLP"
- "Johns Hopkins University"
- "Dell Inc"
- "Xerox Corporation"
- "Canon Inc"
- "Vermont State Colleges"
- "Charter Communications"
- "LinkedIn Corporation"
- "United Parcel Service Co"

[Firewrath9]

xerox lol

UPS?? 

 

 

[AlTech]

They're missing Apple. Apple uses ICE to confiscate "counterfeit" Apple displays and components coming from China.

 

Source: Louis Rossmann

 

But still, I like this move although it's not really open if they have the ability to do that

[ItsMitch]

12 minutes ago, Acblind said:

- "Thomson Reuters"

Why do ICE care about Reuters? They're news n analytics?

[Mira Yurizaki]

They forgot the US government.

[Dabombinable]

For the most part (an example of an exception being above) ICE is just enforcing US laws.....and the original pull is talking about immigrants. Why are organisations that are literally just doing their job and following the countries laws having this kind of thing happen to them?

[Drak3]

Just now, Dabombinable said:

For the most part (an example of an exception being above) ICE is just enforcing US laws.....and the original pull is talking about immigrants. Why are organisations that are literally just doing their job and following the countries laws having this kind of thing happen to them?

Because of media abd Democrat bullshit about how these criminals are "dreamers" and what not.

[Crunchy Dragon]

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