To venture into the world of online anti-H1B activism is to enter a world of legitimate grievance mixed with outright xenophobia and racism. On the one hand, these sites do great work in bringing to light the ongoing abuses of the H1B program by American tech companies, but on the other hand, it takes a pretty twisted individual to openly gloat that the mass-fatality-causing collapse of an New Delhi bridge is evidence that Indian engineers are inferior to American engineers. Nonetheless, in the midst of all the rancor—rancor that’s made worse by high unemployment—south Asian IT contractors and their American opponents have joined forces against an alleged IT sweatshop’s attempt to silence its anonymous online critics. The unlikely allies are also united in opposing a New Jersey court’s ruling that the critics’ sites be taken offline and their identities disclosed.
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