Madeleine Albright, Big Bang actress 'ready to join Muslim registry'

American corporations, from the largest conglomerate to the smallest firm, are facing a question: "Will we do business with the Trump administration to further its most extreme, draconian goals? (and ideas) Or will we resist?"

The question is important for tech companies that are valuable partners for a "budding authoritarian."

However, only Twitter of nine prominent firms said no to Trump's National Muslim Registry.

Trump's transition team proposed 'Muslim Registry', which would either be a list of people from nearly two dozen Muslim nations entering the US or a list of all Muslims in the US.

Many people felt the idea is effectively pointless and morally appalling.

In Nov'15, Donald Trump said that there should be a "lot of systems, beyond databases" to track Muslims in the country.

Projects like 'Muslim Registry' would, however, provide US-based tech companies a chance to "draw a line in the sand" and push back efforts to track people because of their religion.

Opposing such projects "doesn't take much in the way of courage or conviction, even by the thin standards of corporate America."

Assuming that no company would ever involve itself in such projects is wrong.

The nine tech companies included Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton, SRA International, and CGI.

While other companies either didn't respond or declined to comment, only Twitter and Microsoft answered the question.

While Microsoft said it would "protect privacy and public safety," Twitter said "no"; the company's policy prohibits the use, by outside developers, of "Twitter data for surveillance purposes."

Shortly after the Presidential election, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty personally wrote a letter to Trump offering her congratulations and her company's services.

She identifies six different areas as potential business opportunities between IBM and a Trump White House.

She also expressed willingness to sell technology to Trump for Mosque surveillance, a virtual wall with Mexico, shutting portions of the Internet on command, etc.

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Mayim Bialik from 'The Big Bang Theory' both vowed to register themselves as Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans.

Both women tweeted that they were ready to register as Muslims "in #solidarity."

"If we're registering people who you think are a threat, register white males too." said Mayim Bialik.