internet giant Googleas far as officially confirmed Israel fired an employee who protested the contract made with the army.
Google, the company’s work for the Israeli army, which is currently busy with the occupation of Palestine He fired an employee who protested, as you can see in the video below. A man stood up during a presentation by an executive from Google’s Israeli side. Google Cloud engineer, “I refuse to develop technology that powers genocide or surveillance” yell. Making a statement on this issue, Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson said, “Regardless of the issue, this behavior is not right and our employee was terminated for violating our policies.” said. According to reports, the fired engineer was at the event Israel of your government Google and also signed by Amazon for access to cloud services He protested Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract. Project NimbusIt will mediate increased surveillance of Palestinians and the collection of more unlawful data about them.” has been frequently protested before by both employees and people outside the company.
BREAKING—PRO-PALESTINE @googlecloud ENGINEER DISRUPTS @Google ISRAEL DIRECTOR AT GOOGLE-SPONSORED ISRAELI TECH CONFERENCE IN NYC.
The worker that demanded Google STOP using worker labor to power genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. #NoTechForApartheid pic.twitter.com/t2mqCqFFay
— No Tech For Apartheid (@NoTechApartheid) March 4, 2024
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