US EditionReid Hoffman Argues Silicon Valley ‘Can’t Bend the Knee to Trump’ After Fatal Shootings
Reid Hoffman and over 1,000 tech employees urge CEOs to oppose ICE violence and cancel contracts following the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents.
- On Thursday, Reid Hoffman urged Silicon Valley leaders to oppose ICE violence and stop pacifying President Donald Trump in posts on X and an opinion column, framing it as a leadership responsibility.
- Earlier this month, ICEout.tech launched as a worker-led petition after Renee Nicole Good’s killing, with more than 1,000 tech employees signing to urge CEOs and Silicon Valley companies to act.
- This week, Silicon Valley leaders including Dario and Daniela Amodei, Sam Altman, and Tim Cook condemned ICE’s overreach, yet several executives attended a private White House screening hours after Alex Pretti’s shooting.
- Hoffman warns that tech leaders hold economic, social and platform power, and the Minneapolis killings sparked widespread outrage forcing the White House into damage control.
- Historically, tech employees protested during Trump 1.0, but this past year many Silicon Valley leaders have been notably quiet due to Big Tech companies’ reliance on federal government contracts and regulations.
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Reid Hoffman argues Silicon Valley ‘can’t bend the knee to Trump’ after fatal shootings
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman argued Thursday that Silicon Valley “can’t bend the knee” to President Trump after a second American was killed by federal agents amid an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Hoffman, a major Democratic donor, said in an op-ed in the San Francisco Standard that too many tech leaders have “divested themselves of the…
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The Economic TimesLinkedIn cofounder urges tech leaders to denounce Trump
Hoffman is the latest in a string of Silicon Valley figures to criticise the US president on his sweeping immigration crackdown in the city. Hoffman wrote that "Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the (Trump) administration's excesses," in an opinion piece in The San Francisco Standard.
First, they held Donald Trump the stirrup in the presidential office. After the deadly attacks of Minneapolis, the tech elite is publicly surprised by the brutality of his regime. That is hardly credible.
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