President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from some Islamic countries from entering the United States has been met with a flood of tech companies making record-breaking donations to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Popular ride-sharing app Lyft revealed that it will donate $1 million to the ACLU in order to help “defend our constitution.” The move inspired other top tech figures and apps to throw their support behind the organization, whose mission is to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties of every person in the USA.
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Former Apple VP and Nest founder Tony Fadell announced on Twitter that he would match any of his followers’ donations to the ACLU. Fadell initially promised to spend up to $25,000 but within hours increased the amount to $100,000 due to the strong response.
Triple your donation. Send your receipts to me too. I'll match to $25k. Thanks @sacca for taking the lead! https://t.co/B6TMltL2OB
— Tony Fadell (@tfadell) January 29, 2017
Silicon Valley investor and Shark Tank co-star Chris Sacca also promised to match contributions to the ACLU. The team behind the popular weather app Dark Sky announced it will donate all proceeds from their app for the next seven days to the ACLU.
As a result of the outpouring of support, the ACLU says it has received more than $24 million in donations since Saturday from at least 356,306 individual donors. The amount is more than the organization received in all of 2016.
If you want to donate, you can make a contribution to the ACLU online. Other organizations like the National Immigration Law Center, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Families for Freedom and National Immigration Law Center are also looking for donations to help low-income immigrants affected by Trump’s ban.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
33 responses to “App makers take stand against Trump’s immigration ban”
This is pure stupidity. Do they now, that Trump just realised that, what Obama started? Do they read Trump’s executive order? Brainwashed heads …
I already deleted Lyft – not because I support Trump, but because I get enough of this sh*t everywhere else, leave my apps/services alone. Where are all these awesome companies that care when they laid off all of the coworkers of mine to hire “four guys for the cost of you” people in India? So, they can stuff it and I will delete any app that does more than what I downloaded it for. Nag me and try to get me to think “your way” and I free space on my phone, it’s that simple…
I eally don’t want to talk politics, but oh my – your iPhone really does not appear to be the only place with an abundance of free space, my friend…
Awe, we don’t like when someone doesn’t fall into lock-step with us do we? Guys like you are why nobody will get along for a long time to come…go march if it makes you feel warm, snowflake.
You hardly ever report anything about Macintosh any more, and now you’ve decided to be a lefties political blog. I’m done. Goodbye.
Indeed, KK, goodbye… and good riddance to you.
“App makers take stand against Trump’s immigration ban”
Wonder how much money Führer Trump pays people to stand in back of him, plaster fake smiles on their faces, clap their hands, and pretend to be anything but afraid for their jobs, lives and very souls. What a •tragic• scene, as daily, this dictator signs away important regulations meant to keep air clean, water drinkable, the workplace free of discrimination and on and on and on. Until republicans do the right thing and oppose this hideous dictator—instead of only thinking about how to keep their cushy jobs—and until this horrible imitation of a man is hauled out the Peoples’ House, America and our precious 240-year-old constitution are in serious jeopardy.
Still, it’s encouraging to see resistance from disparate quarters, and hopefully as influential as the tech sector.
only leftist crybaby tools use nazi speak to protest the democratically elected president..
The childish, leftist/crybaby/Nazi comment is not worth responding to. About the so-called “President” being democratically elected, it’s a specious premise. He lost the election by more than 3,000,000 votes, the most in recent memory. That he was “elected” is due to severely gerrymandered districts (the result of Republican manipulation and voter suppression), and the interfering with the election by Russia, self-admitted anarchist and cyber thief Julian Assange… and of course Trump being complicit with both. Read a book now and then. Get an education. And stop your ranting about things you are ignorant about.
You have to go back and read your comment, then your reply to see how effin’ funny it is. Good lord, tell mom you’re going out today to get a job. Making signs an t-shirts isn’t one.
To quote your president, “So sad!”
thank you so much for the education. who knew this stuff. evidently as a deplorable racist old white guy, i know nothing outside my trailer trash country music listening chewing tobacco using windows xp on my dell ways.
Excellent self-assessment. I’d only add that you at least •sound• like a guy who sits on on a butt-stained couch, gun-cleaning kit in one hand and cheap beer in the other, ranting at the TV and that Dell computer. Your lack of basic punctuation lends credence to the point. Who knew this stuff? Evidently, you.
Whoops, sorry, but don’t you realize this is America? A free country whose citizens have a reponsibility to oppose attacks on the law and civil rights EVEN when the person attacking our American values is an elected official. If you want to live in a country where everyone is afraid to challenge the strongman in charge, I suggest you move to Russia, where you can live under the real power behind DJY.
What a pity Trump isn’t the fascist you leftist fascists claim he is. If he were, you’d be on your way to a reeducation camp, or better yet — to a Soylent Green factory.
Jaybergen, or more appropriately, Jay Bergen-Belsen, you are a sick, despicable person to say such a thing.
Oh, and F’ YOU!!
Dear too cowardly to post under his own name when he/she/it cheapens the memory of the Holocaust:
People who live in glass houses …
Did you lose family in The Holocaust? Did you? DID you?? No you did not. Have you served your country? You have not! Care to ask me the same questions? How in the world you managed to conflate the original discussion with the The Holocaust is baffling, but how you concluded that I, a proud Jew, do not fully and absolutely condemn Adolph Hitler and his immeasurably evil deeds is beyond the pale. If you do not see direct parallels between Hitler and der neue Führer Trump, then you do not have the RIGHT to speak of that terrible period of world history, or the victims of it.
Yes to both, you fucking asshole. God bless America and Am Y’Idrael Chai.
I doubt both. No self-respecting Jew would support Trumpf. As for serving… nah.
Again:
1) You really need to take your meds.
2) Only cowards hide behind screen names when they attack. If you want to continue this absurd exchange, identify yourself.
3) Yes, I am Jewish, but the label I am most proud to wear is “American.” But as a Jew, I’ve met far too many like you – they’re just like the ones who held the door open and told their fellow Jews: “Walk on through. The showers are lovely.”
4) Take your meds.
5) Take your meds.
Bye bye.
You said, “But as a Jew, I’ve met far too many like you – they’re the ones who held the door open and told his fellow Jews: “Walk on through.”
Bergen-Belsen, you are insane! What you said not only makes no sense whatsoever, but also NO real Jew would EVER say that to another, never! It’s is an insulting, hideous thing to put into words. At seventy-five, I am the son of a parent who died in Auschwitz. I Lost two family members in Dachau. My uncle was the first Jewsih Affairs correspondent for the oldest newspaper in this nation, highly respected and more knowledgeable about Judaism and the Holocaust than you will ever be. I teach a college graduate course about the Holocaut, which you would not even be able to pass. Personally, I have never found it necessary to utter the disgusting words, “I’ve met far too many Jews like you.”
All of this leads
I’m very sorry for your more immediate losses and for whatever life experiences have so twisted your mind. Now try to calmly go back over this thread and you will find that it was YOU who began the whole Nazi thing by associating MY name with a concentration camp. No Jew that I know would ever do that. Nor would they throw around references to Nazis or Hitler so freely that the words have lost their power. Bye bye.
Bergen, you’re what is known as a self-loathing Jew. You don’t know whether to keep sabbath, or blow it off for a football game or new movie opening. You know a prayer or two, but don’t really know what they mean. Like Joe Mantegna’s character Bobby Gold, in David Mamet’s movie Homicide, you •call• yourself a Jew, but shy from what it means. Worse, you apparently recoil from ANY mention of the words Nazi or Hitler, as if they are to be shamefully hidden away, rather than without shame, compared to hate and fear-mongering whenever appropriate. And you are utterly paranoid if you think I “tied” you to Hitler… or you simply misread. Too bad.
Kindly save your phony sentiment about my “immediate losses.” That was a long time ago, and I long since moved on. Apparently, you have not. That you cannot see parallels between the rise of national socialism in 1930s Germany to what’s happening in this country (and others), is a testament to your lack of understanding of the plight of Jews, Germany and hundreds of thousands of others in WWII. You simply do not understand, and there’s no convincing you. Enjoy your ignorance; others will continue to take your place while you cower.
Look you fucking asshole. I won’t waste any more time with this. I was actually going to call you a self-hating Jew, but I thought assigning you Sonderkommando status would really piss you off. For the last time, someone (you for instance) who thinks he can judge anything about a person, let alone their entire life based on a few lines clearly needs to be on meds to control their fantasies. The only thing you got right is that I’m not much of a Jew, having dropped all but an occasional Seder shortly after my 1960 Bar Mitzvah. Oh yeah, my USNR service # was D193575, Honorable Discharge 1971.
Funny, but I thought you said you were leaving as of a few posts ago. Also, interesting how you seem to be fixated on the issue of “taking meds.” You mention them in every post. Meds must be very important to you for some reason. In any case, with every post you further give yourself away as being unhinged.
And excuse me, but you were a U.S. Navy •Reservist•?? Okaaay, that explains it. Naval •Reservists• drill one weekend a month and two weeks a year, while receiving base pay while INACTIVE. And since there hasn’t been a war involving the U.S. Navy as far back as, hmmm, let’s see… the Vietnam war years. I guess your so-called “service” is entirely irrelevant, and expensive to the American taxpayer. But now I get it: the meds are necessary to control your PTSD from all the difficult action you saw in the USN Reserve.
By the way, it appears you wrote your last epistle on the sabbath. Niiiiiice.
… and please remember to take your meds.
Your writings is like TOP hit parade of leftist brainwashed stupidity.
You must have been looking in the mirror when you wrote that.
evidently there appears to be many many programmers/high tech folks coming from somilia, libya, syria and other similar places. ps. can’t google just use the internet to have said folks work for them??
Idiots! There is no Muslim ban, but maybe there should be — at least for the ones who are still in the Stone Age — which sadly, a great many of them are.
Quail season. Folks, Egypt’s Daily News reports that one Hassan Nafea, a professor of political science at Cairo university, is flustered at the Trump order. Appears our app makers are also upset. The essence of professor’s beef is the order promotes a ‘quail season’ of sorts that targets Muslims in general. Appears our app makers are on the same page.
Thing is both the professor and app makers are right, but only if you swallow the worn-out strategy of conflating racism with combating a set of dangerous ideas, which the professor does albeit disingenuously by stating that “Trump is a racist president who considers his country the home of white people only.”
The Professor’s bait and switch on racism is as apparent as Trump’s big stick but even a diabolical school bully would admit that the former is a more dangerous ploy than the latter that is attempting to quell it. Besides, given the seven countries on the list are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia and reports of the ban being applied even to green-card holders from the listed seven are untrue, moderate Muslim majority nations such as Indonesia and Malaysia are understandably, and should be, quiet.
And off course, if Egypt takes cue and maintains an official silence as opposed to the professor’s reported suggestion “that Egypt and other countries should oppose the order” it will help citizens of moderate Muslim nations go under the radar without fanfare, at least until the ‘season’ is over. Besides it would be a relief to the garden variety that our app makers concentrate on making apps with pristine algorithms they are equipped with, rather the politically correct language they suffer from.
Organizations like the ACLU make a lot of money off of BS media hysteria. This is a 90 day ban to reevaluate the vetting process, thats all. Silicone Valley should stop watching CNN.