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Mainly to make others aware of what’s happening in the context of this Cloudflare outage. Sure I can avoid giving it visibility/reach but it’s growing and proliferating on its own, and I think ignoring it isn’t going to stop it so I am hoping awareness will help. I’ve noticed a huge rise in open racism against Chinese and Indian and workers of other origin, even when they’re here on a legal visa that we have chosen as a nation to grant for our own benefit.

The legislation that MTG (Marjorie Taylor Green) just proposed a few days ago to ban H1B entirely, and the calls to ban other visa types, is going to have a big negative impact on the tech industry and American innovation in general. The social media stupidity is online but it gives momentum to the actual real life legislation and other actions the administration might take. Many congress people are seeing the online sentiment and changing their positions in response, unfortunately.





Fair points; there's certainly a balance to be struck between raising awareness and amplifying, and I admittedly have no idea where that line is.

I'm not the person you were replying to, but there is a rule I often see about not directly replying/quote tweeting because "engagement" appears to boost support for the ideas expressed. The recommendation then, would be to screenshot it (often with the username removed) and link to that.

FWIW it seems pretty obvious that this was ragebait. OP's profile is pretty much non-stop commentary on politics with nearly zero comments or submissions pertaining to the broader tech industry.

Posts like that deserve to be flagged if the sum of their substance is jingoist musing & ogling dumb people on Twitter.




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