I realize it's kind of a game of musical chairs when companies work so hard to shut down various forms of {labor,equality,ethics} activism in tech, but I found myself wondering at the end of this whether there are groups that are active now, and how to find them. Organizing anything is a coordination problem, but organizing in a context where one is opposed by companies who have positioned themselves as bottlenecks to organization and communication for humans in general seems a uniquely difficult task with unique challenges, and while perhaps financial motivation is prevalent, I like to think many technologists can still be motivated by a challenge
Like, fair. I like the EFF's work a lot, but I think they primarily function on the level of public policy and sometimes mounting strategic legal action, and I was more asking about whether there were ground level orgs in operation, unions, advocacy groups of tech workers, that kind of thing
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I realize it's kind of a game of musical chairs when companies work so hard to shut down various forms of {labor,equality,ethics} activism in tech, but I found myself wondering at the end of this whether there are groups that are active now, and how to find them. Organizing anything is a coordination problem, but organizing in a context where one is opposed by companies who have positioned themselves as bottlenecks to organization and communication for humans in general seems a uniquely difficult task with unique challenges, and while perhaps financial motivation is prevalent, I like to think many technologists can still be motivated by a challenge
I'm not sure I followed all that, but maybe check out the EFF:
https://www.eff.org
Like, fair. I like the EFF's work a lot, but I think they primarily function on the level of public policy and sometimes mounting strategic legal action, and I was more asking about whether there were ground level orgs in operation, unions, advocacy groups of tech workers, that kind of thing