Tech companies meet to plot Trump travel ban legal challenge
A group of US technology giants including Reddit, SpaceX and Pinterest have been invited to assemble today (31 January) to discuss putting their support behind a lawsuit challenging president Trump’s executive order restricting travel from seven Muslim nations.
Software development firm GitHub and fundraising site Kickstarter are organising the meeting in a bid to coordinate an industry-wide response to the order, amidst widespread concern that the measure could adversely impact recruitment and staff.
Thus far, businesses have limited themselves to critical press releases but GitHub is keen to ratchet up this response, uniting with its peers through one voice to increase the likelihood of being heard in the White House.
Michal Rosenn, Kickstarter’s general counsel, said: “We're all very shaken. We're shaken to see our neighbors and our families and our friends targeted in this way. All of us are trying to think about what we can do."
The latest action follows a joint move by Amazon and Expedia to lend their support to a lawsuit filed by the Washington state attorney general, stating that the order is having a detrimental effect on their businesses.
Amongst the firms invited to the gathering are Adobe Systems, AdRoll, Airbnb, Automattic, Box, Cloudera, Cloudflare, Docusign, Dropbox, Etsy, Evernote Corp, Glu Mobile, Google, Lithium, Medium, Mozilla, Netflix, Pinterest, Salesforce, Stripe, Yelp, and Zynga.