About

Our tools are not neutral. Behind every cloud provider, SaaS, framework or AI model there are companies, owners, leaders and investors, and some of them use their money and platforms to push racism, antisemitism, LGBTphobia, hatred of immigrants and support for the far right. Follow the Stack shows who is behind your stack, and what they have documentedly said and done.

Three kinds of links

• You pay. Your money goes to this company.
• Your data. You entrust this company with your or your users’ data.
• You depend. You don’t pay, but you rely on a project this organisation controls.

Rules

• Facts only. Every fact carries the exact quote when there is one, the date, and at least one reliable source.
• A grievance qualifies a documented fact, never a person. We show what was said or done; you draw your conclusions.
• Organisations and public figures only. We never document private individuals, including open source maintainers.
• Disputed facts are marked as contested, and denials or responses are published next to the fact.
• Your stack never leaves your browser. No backend, no tracker, no cookie.

Grievances

• Racism · Statements or actions targeting people because of their race, ethnicity or origin, or documented racial discrimination.
• Antisemitism · Statements or actions targeting Jewish people, including antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial or minimisation.
• Islamophobia · Statements or actions targeting Muslims or Islam as a group.
• LGBTphobia · Statements, policies or actions targeting LGBTQ+ people, including transphobia.
• Sexism & masculinism · Statements, policies or actions demeaning women or excluding them because of their gender, or promoting male dominance, including the "crisis of masculinity" narrative (calls to restore "masculine energy", to re-masculinise institutions or culture).
• Anti-immigration · Hostility to immigrants as a group, calls for mass deportation or "remigration", and related claims.
• Far-right support · Public support for far-right parties, movements or figures.
• Anti-democracy · Statements or actions against democratic institutions, elections or the rule of law.
• Surveillance & deportation · Building or supplying surveillance or deportation infrastructure targeting people.
• Attacks on press & justice · Attacks on journalists, the press, researchers or judges, including lawsuits meant to silence critics.
• Violent rhetoric · Glorifying, threatening or calling for violence against people or groups.
• Authoritarian alignment · Funding, gifting to, or complying with the demands of an authoritarian power in place.
• Funding the far right · Funding far-right parties, movements or campaigns (for Donald Trump, after January 6, 2021).
• Support for war crimes · Publicly supporting a leader under an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, or supplying technology used in conduct that an international court or UN body has documented as war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.

Contribute or correct

Use the contribution form to report a fact, add a product or request a correction: it opens a pre-filled issue on GitHub that you review and submit yourself. Sources are mandatory and every contribution is reviewed by a human. If you are the subject of a fact, you can use the same form to dispute it or add your response.

Why GitHub?

GitHub is owned by Microsoft, which appears in this database. We host here because this is where developers are. We know.