BOYCOTT the June 19 Tech Summit
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Boycott the Trump Summit
On Monday, June 19, the CEOs of at least six major tech companies plan to fly to the White House to attend a meeting with Donald Trump. The known attendees are:
Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Tim Cook, Apple
Safra Catz, Oracle
Ginny Rometty, IBM
Eric Schmidt, Alphabet (aka Google)
The remit of the group will be to “transform and modernize” government information technology and digital services, under the leadership of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law.
This meeting doesn’t have to happen. Tech employees have the power to stop it.
We’ve learned in the last six months that there is no clean way to do business with the Trump Administration. The President does not respect boundaries or institutions. You are either for him, or against him. That decision doesn’t belong to our CEOs; it belongs to us as an industry.
Tech executives met with Trump once before, in a famously awkward December meeting in Trump Tower. They know perfectly well who they’re dealing with, and yet they’re choosing to offer their tacit support to:
- A president who has attempted to bar people, including our own neighbors and colleagues, from entering the United States based on their religious beliefs or national origin.
- A president who has boasted on tape of his history of sexual assault.
- A president who has made shameless use of his office to profit his many business interests.
- A president who has unilaterally withdrawn the United States from the Paris agreement, and makes public statements doubting the existence of climate change.
- A president whose Administration is even now passing a bill in secret to deprive millions of Americans of health care.
- A president who fired his own FBI director for investigating his Administration, and who now accuses him of perjury.
- A president whose agenda for tech includes dismantling the few remaining protections on online privacy, and eliminating net neutrality.
Appel au boycott de la réunion des Gafam avec Trump le 19 juin 2017.