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| Hundreds protest business deal with Israel at Google conference |
| 2024-05-17 |
| [IsraelTimes] Demonstrators chain themselves together, accuse search giant and Israel of using Project Nimbus to commit genocide in Gaza Hundreds of pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protesters demonstrated against Google’s ties to Israel and the IDF at the tech company’s annual developer conference in Mountain View on Tuesday. The protesters chained themselves together near the entrance to the conference, forcing attendees to be redirected to a different entrance, and carried a large banner reading "Google stop fueling genocide." A particular point of contention for the demonstrators was Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal between the Israeli government and Amazon and Google to provide AI and cloud services that are also used by the IDF. The project enables Israeli cabinet ministries and other entities to transfer servers and services into cloud data centers provided locally. "What you will not be hearing from today’s speakers is that right now, as I stand here before you, the state of Israel is using Google technology to execute history’s first AI-powered genocide," one of the protesters was quoted as saying by The Guardian. The protesters, among whom were former and current Google employees, contended that the system is being lethally deployed in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... war — an allegation Google refutes and which the protesters have provided no evidence for. "We are here to say that we cannot stand by while this company fuels this genocide and profits off of it," former Google employee Ariel Koren told The Guardian at the protest. As an ex-employee, you have no standing to stand by. You are not part of the Google we. ”[Google] not only creates the infrastructure for the Israeli military to scale out their crimes against humanity, but these tools are being tested and trained in Paleostine to be exported out to militaries around the world, who can then commit the same types of violence," she said.Koren claimed she was fired from Google for opposing Project Nimbus. Last month, Google announced that it had fired 28 employees for staging "disruptive" sit-in protests at the company’s offices in New York and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to demonstrate against Project Nimbus. The No Tech For Apartheid protests group claimed over 20 more employees were fired a week later but did not give a specific number. Related: Project Nimbus 04/24/2024 Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel Project Nimbus 04/18/2024 Consequences: Google fires 28 employees who staged anti-Israel protests at company offices Project Nimbus 04/17/2024 Google staffers stage sit-in at offices in Seattle, California, NYC to protest contract with Israel |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Clearly Google needs to fire more people and carefully vet the new hires. |
| Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-05-17 09:42 |
| #2 Israel tells World Court South Africa case makes a mockery of genocide |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-17 05:00 |
| #1 We are here to say that we cannot stand by while this company fuels this genocide and profits off of it What happens in Gaza has the same relation to genocide as your microaggressions to assault. |
| Posted by: Grom the reflective 2024-05-17 03:19 |