The Intercept's Sam Biddle asked nine tech companies if they would help authorities create a national registry of known muslims—one of president-elect Donald Trump's campaign suggestions. Only Twitter would go on the record to state that it would not co-operate with such a list.
Twitter: "No," and a link to this blog post, which states as company policy a prohibition against the use, by outside developers, of "Twitter data for surveillance purposes. Period." which states as company policy a prohibition against the use, by outside developers, of "Twitter data for surveillance purposes. Period."
Bravo. It takes courage and planning for publicly-traded businesses to take a hostile stand on hot potatoes like this, and Twitter bothered. Compare to IBM, whose CEO wrote Trump a slobbering mash note promising the services of her company.
Seven of the other companies didn't respond at all. Microsoft responded with "We're not going to talk about hypotheticals at this point."
rest at http://boingboing.net/2016/12/05/bravo-twitter-the-only-tech-c.html
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