Google Workers

even in a world that seems to run on conference-circuit oxygen, mass protests matter, which is why the most significant recent act of tech apostasy probably wasn’t by an individual but an enormous group. A 20,000-employee-andcontractor walkout at Google in November 2018 has flowered into a year’s worth of employee activism against internal policies on sexual assault and partnerships with ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among other issues, and helped inspire similar internal

protests at Microsoft and Facebook led by engineers who literally hold the keys to the whole ecosystem.