> The question is: what do they expect those companies to do?

All companies (not just tech companies) always comply with whoever is currently in charge. A business just cannot operate without complying with the law.

People tend to forget that, and also people ultimately tend to pick the fat paycheck over the ideals.

It's an ironical recurrence: tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.

> tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.

Of all the hypocrisies that are common in our industry, it's this one that I find the most offensive.

“The fact that I was not prepared to resist, in 1935, meant that all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, like me in Germany were also unprepared, and each one of these hundreds of thousands was, like me, a man of great influence or of great potential influence. Thus the world was lost.” ― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45