Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, June 20th, 2018. I'm your host Brian McCullough.

Today, the immigration controversy comes to Silicon Valley.

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Well it's a controversy that's been reaching a boiling point all week, and if there's anything we've learned, it's that tech can no longer consider itself above the political fray.

More than 100 Microsoft employees have signed an open letter to CEO

Sacha Nadella protesting Microsoft's work with ICE,

the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, which has been involved in separating

migrant parents from their children.

Microsoft has a $19.4 million contract with ICE involving data processing and artificial intelligence.

The open letter said, quote, we believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand and put children

and families above profits.

As the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, as the people who build the technologies that Microsoft

profits from, we refuse to be complicit. We are part of a growing movement

comprised of many across the industry who recognize the grave responsibility

that those creating powerful technology

have to ensure what they build is used for good and not for harm."

End quote.

Indeed, we've seen this growing movement for ethical tech development in things like

Google's recent seven principles for AI. But there is also a growing movement

across the tech industry of people speaking out against specifically the Trump administration's so-called

zero tolerance policy with regard to immigrants. And Microsoft's such a Nadella himself

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