#NoTechforICE, #TechWontBuildIt and related community actions have surfaced startling evidence implicating major tech companies in myriad war crimes and human rights abuses taking place at the US/Mexico border, in direct collaboration with ICE.
Billionaire-led Silicon Valley tech companies have been knowingly and deliberately profiteering off the illegal detainment, sexual abuse, torture and separation of families. In such times, it falls on us as a united community of technology workers to hold these corporations and their leaders to account.
In August 2020, we will be holding the first-ever war crimes and human rights abuse tribunal for technology companies implicated in the ongoing border crisis. We will present the charges, hear the evidence, and hand down verdicts accompanied by appropriate sentences where indicated. Following the Tribunal, a full report on the proceedings will be collated by our legal scholars for entry into the historical record.
While we, like many other projects and groups, are rapidly mobilizing around #NoTechforICE, this is the basis of a broader effort to collate information on ongoing tech collaboration with human rights abuses, including: surveillance; warfare and war crimes; police and state violence; rape and sexual assault; and more.
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Contribute to the new Tech War Crimes wiki. Collect community evidence of the activities of the defendants and their organizations with respect to war crimes and human rights abuses at the border, Currently there is a wiki page for each defendant and we need your help to build out our evidence pool!
Are you a technology worker, lawyer, legal scholar or civil rights activist interested in joining the prosecuting team? We’re looking for people who can collate and analyze evidence; formulate and press appropriate charges; and help conduct the Tech War Crimes project according to the highest standards of ethics and the traditions of international law.