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LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has urged more technology leaders to publicly oppose Donald Trump’s administration, following the killing of two American citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Hoffman made the call in an opinion article in The San Francisco Standard, published on Thursday, arguing that many figures in Silicon Valley have failed to speak out against what he described as excesses of the Trump administration.
He said tech leaders should not remain silent or retreat in the hope that the situation would resolve itself.
“Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the Trump administration’s excesses.
“We can’t bend the knee to Trump. We can’t shrink away and just hope the crisis will fade.”
The comments follow public anger over the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, whose killings during a federal immigration operation sparked outrage and forced the White House into damage-control efforts.
Hoffman, a billionaire Democratic donor, is among several prominent technology figures to criticise Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
Google’s chief scientist, Jeff Dean, previously condemned video footage of Pretti’s killing, while venture capitalists Vinod Khosla and Paul Graham have also spoken out against the shootings.
