"But after an ICE agent shot and killed an unarmed US citizen, Renee Nicole Good, in broad daylight in Minneapolis last week, a number of tech leaders have begun publicly speaking out about the Trump administration's tactics. This includes prominent researchers at Google and Anthropic, who have denounced the killing as calloused and immoral. The most wealthy and powerful tech CEOs are still staying silent as ICE floods America's streets, but now some researchers and engineers working for them have chosen to break rank."
"More than 150 tech workers have so far signed a petition asking for their company CEOs to call the White House, demand that ICE leave US cities, and speak out publicly against the agency's recent violence. Anne Diemer, a human resources consultant and former Stripe employee who organized the petition, says that workers at Meta, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, TikTok, Spotify, Salesforce, Linkedin, and Rippling are among those who have signed."
Since Donald Trump's return to the White House in January, major tech companies have largely aligned with the administration, attending official dinners, praising officials, presenting gifts, and seeking permission to sell products to China. The administration imposed arbitrary fees on chip exports and high-skilled-worker visas while overlooking constitutional norms. After an ICE agent shot and killed unarmed U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, some Google and Anthropic researchers publicly denounced the killing. Many top tech CEOs remain silent as ICE operations intensify. Over 150 tech workers signed a petition demanding CEOs call the White House, insist ICE leave U.S. cities, and publicly condemn agency violence.
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