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1,600+ Googlers Call on Company to Kick Cops Off Gmail, End All Other Police Contracts
In its enviable tradition of employee dissent, Googlers have used this moment of civil unrest to reassess their company’s relationship to police. The verdict, according to over 1,600 of them, is that there shouldn’t be one.
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U.S. Lawmaker Calls Out Amazon’s ‘Performative’ Support of Black Lives Matter
Last week, Amazon made a terse announcement that it would institute a “one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s facial recognition technology,” known as Rekognition, in response to the wave of global protests against police brutality spurred by the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At least one U.S. lawmaker is unsatisfied by the…
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Amazon Takes Bold Stance Against Momentary Bad Optics
For the second time in a week, Amazon is trying to score PR brownie points for doing next to nothing in the wake of global anti-racist protests — this time for the weakest possible concession around some of its most dangerous software. And so intones our humble refrain: Fuck off!
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The Austin Police Department Explains Its Bizarre Thank-You Card Tweet
America is, you might be aware, expressing a groundswell of disgust against police brutality following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor — a challenging scenario many local law enforcement departments have responded to with an increased escalation of said brutality. Considering the sheer number of videos circulating on social media of clear-cut violence…