97 tech companies large and small sign a legal brief opposing Trump's #muslimban

[doctorow]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/02/06/97-tech-companies-large-and-sm.html

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[anon48584343]

The hard hat free zone has spoken.

[anon26304152]

For your edification and amusement…the whole list of the 97

APPENDIX A
LIST OF AMICI CURIAE

1. AdRoll, Inc.

2. Aeris Communications, Inc.

3. Airbnb, Inc.

4. AltSchool, PBC

5. Ancestry.com, LLC

6. Appboy, Inc.

7. Apple Inc.

8. AppNexus Inc.

9. Asana, Inc.

10. Atlassian Corp Plc

11. Autodesk, Inc.

12. Automattic Inc.

13. Box, Inc.

14. Brightcove Inc.

15. Brit + Co

16. CareZone Inc.

17. Castlight Health

18. Checkr, Inc.

19. Chobani, LLC

20. Citrix Systems, Inc.

21. Cloudera, Inc.

22. Cloudflare, Inc.

23. Copia Institute

24. DocuSign, Inc.

25. DoorDash, Inc.

26. Dropbox, Inc.

27. Dynatrace LLC

28. eBay Inc.

29. Engine Advocacy

30. Etsy Inc.

31. Facebook, Inc.

32. Fastly, Inc.

33. Flipboard, Inc.

34. Foursquare Labs, Inc.

35. Fuze, Inc.

36. General Assembly

37. GitHub

38. Glassdoor, Inc.

39. Google Inc.

40. GoPro, Inc.

41. Harmonic Inc.

42. Hipmunk, Inc.

43. Indiegogo, Inc.

44. Intel Corporation

45. JAND, Inc. d/b/a Warby Parker

46. Kargo Global, Inc.

47. Kickstarter, PBC

48. KIND, LLC

49. Knotel

50. Levi Strauss & Co.

51. LinkedIn Corporation

52. Lithium Technologies, Inc.

53. Lyft, Inc.

54. Mapbox, Inc.

55. Maplebear Inc. d/b/a Instacart

56. Marin Software Incorporated

57. Medallia, Inc.

58.A Medium Corporation

59. Meetup, Inc.

60. Microsoft Corporation

61. Motivate International Inc.

62. Mozilla Corporation

63. Netflix, Inc.

64. NETGEAR, Inc.

65. NewsCred, Inc.

66. Patreon, Inc.

67. PayPal Holdings, Inc.

68. Pinterest, Inc.

69. Quora, Inc.

70. Reddit, Inc.

71. Rocket Fuel Inc.

72. SaaStr Inc.

73. Salesforce.com, Inc.

74. Scopely, Inc.

75. Shutterstock, Inc.

76. Snap Inc.

77. Spokeo, Inc.

78. Spotify USA Inc.

79. Square, Inc.

80. Squarespace, Inc.

81. Strava, Inc.

82. Stripe, Inc.

83. SurveyMonkey Inc.

84. TaskRabbit, Inc

85. Tech:NYC

86. Thumbtack, Inc.

87. Turn Inc.

88. Twilio Inc.

89. Twitter Inc.

90. Turn Inc.

91. Uber Technologies, Inc.

92. Via

93. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

94. Workday

95. Y Combinator Management, LLC

96. Yelp Inc.

97. Zynga Inc.

[anon26304152]

Apparently they couldn’t get Overstock or Xerox so they could have the complete alphabet.

Pity

[waetherman]

While tech companies may get headlines on BoingBoing, I think focusing on these kinds of companies is a mistake. It only exacerbates the problem of class division. A bunch of tech companies whining that they can’t recruit enough engineers from India to pay six-figure salaries doesn’t really help the optics.

I’m impressed with 84Lumber, which had one of the most thought-provoking ads of the Super Bowl. We should be getting more companies that represent blue collar America to take a stance on the ban.

[Melted_Crayons]

Our history shows that government is responsive to and in many cases subservient to American business, so that is a powerful voice in this particular case. In other words, use what works.

[daneel]

nasty snake-filled head (noirbettie)

[John_Abbott1]

I agree.

Note that Levi Strauss is one of the companies listed; that’s the only one that struck my eye as not being ‘tech’. The text of the document also mentions the company as being started by an immigrant.

But one non-tech company on the list is not enough.

[CoyoteDen]

So… when is Twitter going to suspend @realDonaldTrump?

when is Google going to disable his Android phone?

If these companies oppose him, I’d like to see them actually take action.

[generic_name]

I was kind of amazed that Budweiser had a subtle pro-immigration ad during the Super Bowl last night. I guess there’s already a “boycott Bud” movement afoot.

[billytheclub]

I welcome any and all opposition to this UN-AMERICAN action from the so-called president. It is unconstitutional. It must be openly opposed by every single entity and person possible. Thank you.