> We’re going to change the branch name because it could be seen as offensive but we’re still going to sell police facial recognition software that is biased against black people and women. Facial recognition software that misidentifies black people as gorillas. Facial recognition software that was used to identify unmasked BLM protesters. We’re going to change the branch name to be more inclusive of minorities but we’re going to carry on selling software to ICE. Get the fuck outta here.
This is a weird paragraph. They are contrasting GitHub's decisions against some other companies entirely.
Microsoft was the talking point in a couple of the articles, and they also own Github. The rest, could be considered under the tech giants umbrella -- so I'd say the links are topical and relevant.
Whats not clear to me is whether the first part of the sentence is talking about Github or tech giants? Actually, thats a general thing in this article, switching between those two modes.
This is a weird paragraph. They are contrasting GitHub's decisions against some other companies entirely.
edit: These were the links cited [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50865437
[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/google-apologizes-for-algorithm-mi...
[3] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/18/21373316/nypd-facial-reco...
[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tech-companies-quietl...