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2025-02-27 Fifth Column
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Microsoft boots workers from meeting with CEO for protesting sale of services to IDF
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[IsraelTimes] 5 workers wear shirts reading ‘Does our code kill kids, Satya?’ over provision of AI, cloud services, as recent report claimed army used Microsoft models to select bombing targets
Five Microsoft employees were ejected from a meeting with the company’s chief executive on Monday for protesting contracts to provide artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military.
Confusing Microsoft with a college campus. The protest came after an investigation by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named claimed last week that sophisticated AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing targets during the recent wars 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 ...
and Leb
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
, triggered by the Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
terror group’s devastating October 7, 2023, attack.
The story also contained details of what it said was an errant Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
in 2023 that reportedly struck a vehicle carrying members of a Lebanese family, killing three maiden of tender yearss and their grandmother.
I seem to recall the car belonged to a Hezbollah big turban… Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was speaking about new products at an employee town hall meeting at the company’s corporate campus in Redmond, Washington. Workers standing about 15 feet to his right then revealed t-shirts with words that spelled out the question "Does Our Code Kill Kids, Satya?" when their wearers stood side-by-side.
Cute. "Allahu Akhbar" didn't work?
Photos and video of the incident, which was live streamed throughout the company, shows Nadella kept speaking and did not acknowledge the protesters. Two men quickly tapped the workers on the shoulders and ushered them out of the room.
"We provide many avenues for all voices to be heard," Microsoft said in a statement provided to the AP. "Importantly, we ask that this be done in a way that does not cause a business disruption. If that happens, we ask participants to relocate. We are committed to ensuring our business practices uphold the highest standards."
Microsoft did not answer Tuesday when asked whether the employees involved in the protest would face disciplinary action.
They should have done immediately, or there will be even more of this kind of thing. The moment calls for punishment, not discussion — basic psychology of management stuff. The company also previously declined to comment about the AP’s February 18 story about its contracts with the Israeli military.
In October, Microsoft fired two workers for helping organize an unauthorized lunchtime protest at its headquarters over the Gaza war, in which the workers called Israel’s campaign against Hamas a "genocide" and accused Microsoft of complicity in it. Israel has strenuously denied all accusations of genocide.
Video from the event, shared by a Jewish employee on her Times of Israel blog, showed one of the protest’s 30-40 participants shoving a modified Lebanese flag in her face and telling her, "Kiss the flag, Nazi."
Iran proxies creating a hostile work environment. The Justice Department could have fun with that. At the time, Microsoft said that it had ended the employment of some people "in accordance with internal policy" but declined to give details.
How are people to know the rules, if they aren’t explained? A group of workers has been raising concerns within the company for months about Microsoft providing services to the Israeli military through its Azure cloud computing platform.
Management makes philosophical decisions. Workers get to comply or leave — fussing is not one of the two choices. The AP’s investigation included exclusive details drawn from internal company data and documents, including that the alleged usage of AI models by the Israeli military through Azure increased nearly 200 times after the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023 attack — in which thousands of Death Eaters killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages — starting the war.
Congratulations on making the cut, Microsoft! The AP’s report was shared and discussed among Microsoft employees on social media and within the company’s internal systems. In a community forum designated for employees to raise concerns with big shotship, an employee shared links to the AP report.
More than a dozen others questioned whether the company was violating its stated principles to defend human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
and not to let its AI models be used to harm people, according to screenshots reviewed by the AP.
Abdo Mohammed, a researcher and data scientist who was one of the Microsoft workers fired over the October vigil, said the company is prioritizing profits over its own human rights commitments.
"The demands are clear," said Mohammed, who works with a group of Microsoft workers called No Azure for Apartheid. "Satya Nadella and Microsoft executives need to answer to their workers by dropping contracts with the Israeli military."
Mohammed’s Slave has that entirely backward.
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