By Vahid Razavi — Author of Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof, Founder of EthicsInTech.com, Producer of the Forever Peace Now Documentary, GoAmour.com For more than a decade I have warned about the ethics of Silicon Valley, and the lack thereof. I have watched Big Tech surveil us, censor peace Read more
By Vahid Razavi — Author of Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof, Producer of Forever Peace Now Documentary, ParentsPlea.com Vahid Razavi is a Silicon Valley technology veteran turned human rights advocate, author of “Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof,” and founder of ForeverPeaceNow.com and ParentsPlea.com. He is dedicated to documenting Read more
By Vahid Razavi — Author of Ethics in Tech, ForeverPeaceNow.com, ParentsPlea.com A genocidal regime backed by the largest military superpower on earth and its Department of War is not the savior of Gulf Arab nations, and it is certainly not the liberator of the Iranian people. Anyone who believes otherwise Read more
Since 2022, a silent consensus has been shattered. We are not on the brink of a global conflict—we are living it. World War III is not a future threat of nuclear exchange; it is our present reality. Yet, as battles rage and alliances harden, our leaders still speak of peace Read more
This is a follow-up to our petition holding Silicon Valley Big Tech companies and their executives accountable for complicity in enabling the genocide in Gaza. My goal is to answer why we are petitioning the Spanish Government and Judiciary—rather than other venues like the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Read more
In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler was able to build his war machine and carry out the horrific Holocaust with the direct assistance of major US corporations. US bankers financed his regime through debt restructuring led by the houses of Morgan and Rockefeller. Standard Oil (Rockefeller) enabled the Nazis to refine Read more
I came to the United States from Iran at the age of eleven and lived near International-House (I-House) on top of Bancroft Way. The apartment I lived in was only a few streets away from where the University California Berkeley Football team played its weekly games. As a kid I could climb the hills overlooking the stadium and watch the games for free among the eucalyptus trees.
Do you remember Y2K the Millennium Bug? It was a computer flaw. When complex computer programs were first written in the 1960s, engineers used a two-digit code for the year, leaving out the “19.” As the year 2000 approached, many believed that the systems would not interpret the “00” correctly, Read more
Join Ethics In Technology, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and Veterans For Peace as we celebrate Human Rights Day! Tickets available here on Eventbrite. About this event Join us as we discuss human rights, including military recruitment via online gaming platforms and autonomous weapon systems. As always, our discussion end Read more
Right now, the Federal Trade Commission is considering whether to block Amazon’s proposed $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM Studios. If approved, this deal would bolster Amazon’s unfettered dominance across an ever-growing swath of the U.S. economy and give the company leverage to retool the streaming video industry as we know Read more