Tech workers are frustrated by their companies silence about ICE (opens in new tab)

> why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion?

In this case, it's because those tech workers are the ones whose work is being used to advance these horrific outcomes.

> 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.

“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