Automattic, which owns WordPress and a number of other web development and publishing tools, has signed a pledge not to help build a Muslim registry. The company’s founder and CEO, entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg, signed the pledge on behalf of his entire company today. Called neveragain.tech, the pledge is hosted on GitHub and was created to discourage Silicon Valley conpanies from participating in the creation of a database that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration could use to monitor and target Muslims.
The pledge has so far been signed by more than 1,300 people, and it now has the weight of Mullenweg’s company behind it. Prior to today, the pledge mostly consisted of individual members from across the tech industry. “I'm...
via The Verge
