{"id":3706,"date":"2019-07-29T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:56:04","slug":"irl-tech-worker-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/irl-tech-worker-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"IRL: Tech Worker Revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a movement building within tech. Workers are  demanding higher standards from their companies \u2014 and because of their  unique skills and talent, they have the leverage to get attention.  Walkouts and sit-ins. Picket protests and petitions. Shareholder  resolutions, and open letters. These are the new tools of tech workers,  increasingly emboldened to speak out. And, as they do that, they expose  the underbellies of their companies\u2019 ethics and values, or perceived  lack of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode of IRL, host Manoush Zomorodi meets with Rebecca \nStack-Martinez, an Uber driver fed up with being treated like an \nextension of the app; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/supernodal\/\">Jack Poulson<\/a>,\n who left Google over ethical concerns with a secret search engine being\n built for China; and Rebecca Sheppard, who works at Amazon and pushes \nfor innovation on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMZNforClimate\/\">climate change<\/a> from within. EFF Executive Director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eff\/\">Cindy Cohn<\/a> explains why this movement is happening now, and why it matters for all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/irlpodcast.org\/season5\/episode4\/\">https:\/\/irlpodcast.org\/season5\/episode4\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-documentcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/4905801-Jack-Poulson-Google-resignation-letter-20-Aug-2018.html?embed=true&#038;responsive=false&#038;sidebar=false#?secret=o8nJ6jeZmG\" data-secret=\"o8nJ6jeZmG\" title=\"Jack Poulson Google resignation letter 20 Aug 2018 (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> <br>Here is Jack Poulson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/4905801-Jack-Poulson-Google-resignation-letter-20-Aug-2018.html\">resignation letter to Google<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a movement building within tech. Workers are demanding higher standards from their companies \u2014 and because of their unique skills and talent, they have the leverage to get attention. Walkouts and sit-ins. Picket protests and petitions. Shareholder resolutions, and open letters. These are the new tools of tech workers, increasingly emboldened to speak out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}