Tech & Genocide - Conclusion

Tech companies are a clearly complicit in genocide either by their inaction, refusal to change and active business deals. Genocide is a lucrative business and until now none of them have faced consequences. Corporations do no have immunity and have to be prosecuted according to international law.

Tech did not create the aforementioned issues but exacerbated them by their inaction or active participation in censorship, disinformation, surveillance, forced labor and warfare. The impact of these technologies should be understood through the alignment of incentives between corporations and states. It would be a grave mistake to only view the companies mentioned as isolate cases rather than being symptomatic of a corrupt system where tech is an enabler and multiplier of violence. These complex system, the innocuous nature of some of its individual parts and automation lead to a diffusion of responsibilities.

Genocide is often describe as the crime of all crimes. Our passiveness and failure to act make us all complicit. The universal injunction to prevent all forms of genocide "Never again" is a promise we have made to humanity. It is well past time we honor it, yet we have cheapened its meaning by using it for theatrics to shift our responsibility.

We have to fight for those affected; not by unilaterally deciding their future as it is often done thus removing their agency but as supporting voices amplifying their own concerns and demands. While respecting their dignity by taking great care of viewing them through the richness and complexity of their identities and cultures.

If we were to fail, History will judge us harshly.