Unfortunately, with firearms registration and no-fly lists, Muslim registries are part of the slope we've set precedent for. A citizen should _never_ have to register with the government to exercise a freedom explicitly granted in the constitution.
Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
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Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#22It might be more fun (and possibly more effective) to just build a highly dysfunctional one. (I inevitably invite anyone with a beef against certain database technologies to suggest some possibilities)
We could collectively all change our religion on FB to Muslim
Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#23It's a ridiculous and naive view of the world. Of course it already exists. For example on facebook. For example in the mosques. Everybody was warned, everybody could have seen this coming. But most people didn't give a fuck. Welcome is post privacy. I didn't need have to be that way. We can still turn this into post-post-privacy. But only if we face what we have already done.
Well, to be honest, the title is highly misleading.
Sure, they pledged to refuse to participate in the creation of such database, but that's just one of the things stated in the full pledge. I would emphasize more on the following parts of the pledge:
* to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.
* to implement security and privacy best practices, in particular, for end-to-end encryption to be the default wherever possible.
* If we cannot stop these practices, we will exercise our rights and responsibilities to speak out publicly and engage in responsible whistleblowing without endangering users.Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#24Of course they won't. Any tech worker worth hiring would write a general people database, and define 'muslim' as a query parameter.
(With apologies to Nathaniel Borenstein. Also, it's true)
Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#25Can someone explain to me why a religion made by a pedophile-barbarian is somehow tolerated and even defended against "islamophobia" (is e.g. a gay guy phobic for being scared of muslims that given power would throw him from a building or persecute him in some other way at least)? Their whole ideology (as it basically governs every aspect of life) is crude, vile, barbaric and dangerous. The animosity towards them is…
Have you read the Old Testament? Christianity has plenty of barbarism in it.
Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#26It might be more fun (and possibly more effective) to just build a highly dysfunctional one. (I inevitably invite anyone with a beef against certain database technologies to suggest some possibilities)
Given that these databases already exist, that would be the practical solution.
It's not enough to just vow not to build them; the databases that exist would need to be data-jammed. If everyone is Muslim, then no-one is.
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#27Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims yet people willingly add their names to a public Github repo as a LGBTQIA or POC in tech.
Sure, but there's a world of difference between volunteering your name to a public statement (knowing that it's public) and having your data harvested without your consent for purposes actively opposed to your own.
Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#28It might be more fun (and possibly more effective) to just build a highly dysfunctional one. (I inevitably invite anyone with a beef against certain database technologies to suggest some possibilities)
We could collectively all change our religion on FB to Muslim
Then you'd have a registry of Muslims (religion set before event) and dissenters.
Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#29Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims yet people willingly add their names to a public Github repo as a LGBTQIA or POC in tech.
Do you not see how these two things are different?
Re: Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
#30For everyone dismissing this as "too late" and "this data already exists" should consider that this appears to be addressed in the pledge.
> to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.
> Responsibly destroy high-risk data sets and backups