Facebook wo n’t be helping Donald Trump build a register of Muslims . Hold your applause , citizenry .
Ina statement madeto The Intercept ’s Sam Biddle , a spokesperson from the chopine which is Definitely Not A Media Company said , “ No one has asked us to build a Islamic registry , and of course we would not do so . ” Yesterday , an interior emailaccidentally sent to Buzzfeed ’s Nitasha Tiku by a Facebook spokesperson referred to the potential registry as a “ straw military personnel . ” Earlier this calendar month , Twitter was the onlyof nine major technical school fellowship to tell Biddle they ’d decline such a request outright .
As it turns out , the approximation of such a Islamic registry is so obviously bad and offensive to most multitude that many employed in the tech sphere leapfrogged their CEOs and media relations department tosign a petitionstating they ’ll have no part in it . “ We refuse to participate in the macrocosm of databases of identify information for the United States government to target individuals based on wash , religion , or internal origin , ” reads the petition , which has been signed byover 600 cogsin the technical school machine from companies such as Google , PayPal , Apple , and GitHub . If any of the signees are employed by Facebook , they did not call attention to that information in their indorsement .
The news of Facebook ’s refusal also coincides with today ’s secretive meeting between Trump and the tech elite — with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in attendance alongside the likes of Larry Page , Jeff Bezos , Tim Cook and other masses with more money than God . trump card has beencritical of the tech industry , and with his likewise closed - door medium meeting describe by one source as a “ fucking firing squad , ” many look this summit meeting to about as civil .
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Has president - chosen Trump tell his desire for a registry of Muslim Americans ? It seems to be an idea he ’s toying with buthasn’t been entirely clear on . perchance he wants one . Or perchance just a list of refugee from Middle easterly countries . Or maybe he ’s simply not ruling out the possibility of a register . It can be terribly hard to glean check from a human being who ca n’t complete a condemnation . In any instance , any and all of those options is horrifying — and supported by his continued insistence on an immigration forbidding for Muslims .
The wedlock of bigoted policy and magnanimous datum could be an unprecedented incubus for anyone the Trump establishment feel prepared to target , and it revolutionize little confidence that Facebook dragged its dog on denouncing such an objectionable use of goods and services of its substance abuser information .
Do n’t concern Donald , I ’m certain there are plenty of mercenary technical school companies uncoerced to rend unto Trump what is Trump ’s .
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