Tech Community Comes Together In Support of #MuslimBan
From Washington D.C., to Seattle, civil rights groups and protesters continue to organize and demonstrate over President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. This Exec order banned refugees and others entry to the US. The ACLU sued the government and won. Although, this was a small victory for ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union, an organization of lawyers helping people, nonprofit). Executive orders have high precedence.
In support, tech company CEOs has been coming together and matching donations to ACLU.
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Also, Uber has landed themselves in deep shit today and the internet has issued a strike against the new wave taxi app via the #DeleteUber hashtag. Long story short, as taxi drivers went on strike at JFK airport following Donald Trump’s executive order dubbed #MuslimBan, Uber lifted their surge pricing at the airport and tried to undercut the strike seeking to make a profit. Customers quickly noticed and took the matter to the internet.
Fun Fact: Lyft has reached the Top Ten downloads on the App Store as people quickly deletes their Uber account and switch to Lyft.
3/ We are donating $1,000,000 over the next four years to the ACLU to defend our constitution. https://t.co/0umGOlkhSx
— logangreen (@logangreen) January 29, 2017
Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US. Stayed tuned for more, contact me if urgent need for housing
— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) January 29, 2017
Twitter is built by immigrants of all religions. We stand for and with them, always.
— Twitter (@Twitter) January 29, 2017
Executive orders affecting world's most vulnerable are un-American. Dropbox embraces people from all countries and faiths
— Drew Houston (@drewhouston) January 28, 2017
Donating to the @ACLU today. We cannot let America turn into a closed off, fearful country. We're better than this.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) January 28, 2017
