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2024-12-04 -Great Cultural Revolution
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Google said worried contract with Israel could damage its reputation
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[IsraelTimes] Report shows letter sent to tech giant’s executives raised concerns Project Nimbus deal with Israeli government could lead to ‘the facilitation of human rights violations’
Officials at Google are reportedly worried that the company’s contract with Israel, which includes services for the Defense Ministry and Shin Bet, could potentially enable Israeli human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
violations of Paleostinians, and damage the reputation of the company.
According to a Tuesday report in The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, officials at the US tech giant addressed concerns in documents sent to executives that the deal with the Israeli government could cause damage to the company.
The Times quoted one document as saying that officials warned executives that "Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations, including Israeli activity in the West Bank."
The officials also warned of reputational harm that could come with association with the Israeli government.
In 2021, the tech giant unveiled Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal between itself, the Israeli government, and Amazon 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.
The government contract with Google and Amazon for the services is for an initial seven years, with an option to extend it for a total of 23 years. After the first seven years, Israel will be able to add other suppliers or halt work with the current ones.
In May, hundreds of current and former Google employees staged a protest at the tech company’s annual developer conference in Mountain View, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, calling for ties with Israel to be severed over the war in 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 a rusty 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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
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."
"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 contended that the system is being lethally deployed in the Gaza war — an allegation Google refutes and which the protesters have provided no evidence for.
In April, Google announced that it had fired 28 employees for staging "disruptive" sit-in protests at the company’s offices in New York and California to demonstrate against Project Nimbus.
Tuesday’s report in the Times showed that concerns within Google over Project Nimbus are not limited to the rank and file, and that higher-ups and executives are worried about the reputational damage of working directly with the Israeli government, as well as fears that their cloud systems could be used in the "facilitation of human rights violations." 
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