• Dissent over Gaza bubbles inside Amazon, Microsoft and Google, leading to workers being fired

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to nz.politics,alt.politics.trump,soc.culture.israel on Mon Sep 15 01:01:59 2025
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    So these big US companies sack anybody who raises questions over their involvement with Israel <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/dissent-over-gaza-bubbles-inside-amazon-microsoft-and-google-leading-to-workers-being-fired/HMV3P3S33FHJVGRGJ6ULZPF6B4/>.

    That doesnrCOt seem to shut them up: more dissenting workers keep
    standing up to make their voices heard.

    Microsoft tried to play dumb about IsraelrCOs (mis)use of its services:

    At the meeting, Smith, whose office was occupied by the
    protesters, acknowledged concerns that IsraelrCOs Government may
    have misused MicrosoftrCOs tools for surveillance of Palestinians.
    Microsoft provided a copy of his remarks to the Post.

    He said company leaders learned rCLinformation that we did not have
    beforerCY when the Guardian reported in August that MicrosoftrCOs
    Azure cloud service was used by the Israel Defence Forces to store
    covertly recorded cellphone calls of Palestinians.

    rCLWe do not allow our services to be used for rCa the mass
    surveillance of civilian populations,rCY Smith said.

    rCLWe will get to the bottom of this,rCY he added, citing the
    companyrCOs hiring of a law firm to investigate, which was first
    announced last month.

    ThatrCOs what Israel does, too: promise to investigate some alleged
    wrongoing (like the killing of Hind Rajab and her family), and then
    quietly bury the whole thing.
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