Mumbai: In the wake of the ongoing protest against the CAA in the country, a group of Indian-origin professionals working with tech giants such as Google, Uber, Amazon, and Facebook opened up against the new religion-based citizenship law and the planned national register of citizens, terming them as “fascist”.
They urged business leaders like Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella and Mukesh Ambani to “stop and publicly condemn fascist acts by the Indian government”.
The ‘TechAgainstFascism’ letter on the online publishing platform Medium also urged leaders to refuse to shut down the Internet over the “whims of the government” and to ensure that content moderation is not skewed pro-government.
“We, engineers, researchers, analysts, and designers – condemn the technology industry, the fascist Indian government and the brutality inflicted on civilians. State-sponsored vandalism against protesters must be stopped immediately,” the letter said in the letter. Having said.
These employees – who claim to be based in San Francisco, Seattle, London, Israel, and Bengaluru – stated that the opinions expressed are their own and do not reflect those of their employers.
“The CAA, 2019, is a joint anti-Muslim scheme jointly with NRC, which will create greater legitimacy and global inequality for Muslims, worse with India’s economic decline and climate change,” the letter said.
It reported that with record-high unemployment levels, declining growth, and rising farmer suicides, such as “a hyper-nationalist and divisive strategy is an attempt by the Government of India to counter its inability at the biggest socio-economic crisis in the country.”
“Leading country towards Digital India” and attracting the tech company’s business investment, the regressive government sees the Internet as a political tool for suppression of civil dissent, while using the same network to organize fake content And to spread. “
The professional urged leaders to use technology as a force for good, refuse to share user details with the government, refuse to shut down the internet in the government’s affair, provide tools to mobilize citizens , And ensure that the content moderation pro is not a sketching pro-government
This comes at a time when thousands of Indians across the country are opposing the amended citizenship law and the planned National Register of Citizens (NRC). On several occasions, these protests turned violent and about 20 people were killed and many injured in clashes with police.
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