Never Again pledge

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The Never Again pledge or NeverAgain.tech is a commitment by information technology workers to work against a United States government database identifying people by race, religion, or national origin, specifically in response to the Trump presidential campaign statements about creating a Muslim registry and deporting millions of illegal immigrants.{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/13/technology/never-again-data-collection-trump/|title=Tech workers pledge to never help Trump build Muslim registry|last=Larson|first=Selena|date=December 13, 2016|work=CNN|accessdate=20 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2016/12/13/never-again-is-silicon-valleys-public-pledge-to-refuse-a-muslim-registry/#620070001f92|title='Never Again' Is Silicon Valley's Public Pledge To Refuse A Muslim Registry|last=Stone|first=Zara|date=December 13, 2016|work=Forbes|accessdate=21 December 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/silicon-valley-tech-workers-pledge-not-build-donald-trump-muslim-registry-a7474561.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/silicon-valley-tech-workers-pledge-not-build-donald-trump-muslim-registry-a7474561.html |archive-date=2022-06-18 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Hundreds of Silicon Valley tech workers pledge not to build Donald Trump's Muslim registry|last=Sharman|first=Jon|date=December 14, 2016|work=The Independent|accessdate=21 December 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-engineers-sign-pledge-not-to-build-muslim-database-donald-trump-2016-12|title=Hundreds of Silicon Valley engineers sign pledge not to build Muslim database|last=Price|first=Rob|date=December 14, 2016|work=Business Insider|accessdate=21 December 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/never-again-pledge-draws-tech-workers-who-vow-not-to-help-build-possible-registry/|title=Amazon, Microsoft workers sign ‘never again’ pledge to oppose Trump’s call for Muslim registry|last=Day|first=Matt|date=December 15, 2016|work=The Seattle Times|accessdate=21 December 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/amazon-microsoft-workers-sign-never-again-pledge-to-oppose-trumps-call-for-muslim-registry_1959004.html|title=Amazon, Microsoft workers sign 'never again' pledge to oppose Trump's call for Muslim registry|last=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=December 16, 2016|work=Zee News|accessdate=21 December 2016}} Also online as {{cite news|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/amazonmicrosoft-workers-join-pledge-to-oppose-muslim-registry/articleshow/56017226.cms|title=Amazon, Microsoft workers join pledge to oppose Muslim registry|last=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=December 16, 2016|work=The Economic Times|accessdate=21 December 2016}}

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The pledge was placed online on December 13, 2016 and had gathered more than 1,300 technology worker signatures two days later, including employees of Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Google, and Microsoft. The online release was intended to anticipate the meeting of Silicon Valley executives with Trump on December 14. The pledge grew out of a Bay Area Tech Solidarity meeting held by Maciej Ceglowski; the lead organizer of the pledge was Leigh Honeywell, with co-organizers Ka-Ping Yee and Valerie Aurora.{{cite news|url=http://neveragain.tech/about.html|title=neveragain.tech About page|date=13 December 2016|accessdate=21 December 2016}} The name of the pledge, "never again", refers to the historical use of IBM information technology in World War II to enable the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States and the Holocaust and use of Nazi concentration camps in Germany.

Computerworld magazine wrote, and Aurora admitted, that the action of publicly signing the pledge could put tech workers at risk of losing their jobs, especially those with security clearances.{{cite news|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/3150967/it-industry/despite-risk-1-000-in-tech-pledge-not-to-help-trumps-data-efforts.html|title=Despite risk, 1,000 in tech pledge not to help Trump's data efforts|last=Thibodeau|first=Patrick|date=December 15, 2016|work=Computerworld|accessdate=21 December 2016}} Inc. magazine wrote that before the Never Again pledge, only Twitter had stated that it would oppose a Muslim registry, but after the pledge, the list of such American technology companies grew to include Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, IBM, Lyft, Medium, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and Uber.{{cite news|url=http://www.inc.com/salvador-rodriguez/salesforce-muslim-registry.html|title=Salesforce Joins List of Tech Companies That Oppose Building a Muslim Registry|last=Rodgriguez|first=Salvador|date=December 19, 2016|work=Inc.|accessdate=21 December 2016}} (Inc. maintains [http://www.inc.com/salvador-rodriguez/tech-muslim-registry-pledge.html A Running List of Tech Companies That Have Pledged Not to Build a Muslim Registry].)