> Ethics as is currently practiced in tech is using the mob to remove whoever you don't like.
To the extent that that's even arguably true, it's irrelevant, since it's about the practice of basic organizational ethics within the tech community, and not about either the theory or pragmatics of any the discipline ethics of technology, or any of it's subdisciplines like AI Ethics, which is and are about the ethical implications of the application of technology, and not about the personal, non-tech-related ethics of people who happened to work in the field of technology.
> To put it another way: the only person to lose their job over Epstein running a rape island was Stallman for being right but uncouth.
Yeah, that is a very good illustration of how you are talking about something that has nothing to do with the Ethics of AI or any other ethics of technology subfields.
Pointing out that the interests of the supposed gatekeepers of morality are misaligned with society is a lot more worth while than doing the same for a group of people whose only crime is having a wage 50% higher than the median in the US.
Ethics as is currently practiced in tech is using the mob to remove whoever you don't like.
To put it another way: the only person to lose their job over Epstein running a rape island was Stallman for being right but uncouth.