The Nexus of PrivacyApr 18, 2024
Alex Hanna

Holy shit. Google fired 28 workers for protesting against its $1.2 billion contract with the IDF. Solidarity with these workers of conscience.

https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-from-google-workers-with-the-no-tech-for-apartheid-campaign-on-googles-indiscriminate-28ba4c9b7ce8

STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory firings of workers:

This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant…

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Show threadMichael GemarApr 18, 2024
@alex @moira Remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil”?
Show threadToni AittoniemiApr 18, 2024
@michaelgemar @alex @moira Trying to post about this on hellbook led to ”Loading Error”.. 🤔
Show threadxs4me2Apr 18, 2024

@alex

It’s called capitalism…

Show threadRichard AyresApr 18, 2024
@xs4me2 @alex yes. Never forget that almost all businesses are autocratic dictatorships.
Show threadxs4me2Apr 18, 2024
@rayres @alex Not the ones I choose to work in…
Show threadRichard AyresApr 18, 2024
@xs4me2 @alex congratulations comrade. Unfortunately not all workers own the means of production yet.
Show threadxs4me2Apr 18, 2024
@rayres @alex Thx 😬 its not about owning the means of production, its more about living in a truly social democracy, in Europe there are still echoes of that…
Show threadL⚝⚝CY idk ⁂⚝⁂ ⚝ ⚝ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Apr 18, 2024
@alex funny that the articel pressures me to use #google :D
Show thread~/phranck Apr 18, 2024
@alex @leyrer „Don't be evil.“… Joa, schon lang nimmer.
Show threadreiniApr 18, 2024
@alex Are you sure you know enough to boost a thing implying IDF commits genocide? I mean, it is an open question how the current israeli government wants to do something other than a two-state solution, but this is the only thing you have a point. WAY too thin to take sides in this conflict, even more so without prominently condemning Hamas deeds like oct-7.
Show threadapemantusApr 18, 2024
Workers of the greatest surveillance capitalism corporation? Fuck them and Goolag both.
Show threadMetropiaApr 18, 2024
@alex Yes I am certain they are morally upstanding supporters of terrorism
Show threadJeremyApr 18, 2024
@alex it's nothing new. They are not going to give up Billion Dollars.
Show threadLes capsules du prof LutzApr 18, 2024
@alex oh tabarnak... quitter le confort et la commodité de mon adresse gmail, de la diffusion sur YT et des recherches indexées de Google passe d'une simple volonté d'indépendance à un devoir moral.
Show threadDavid BramianApr 18, 2024
@alex they could pay out millions in wrongful termination suits and still turn a billion in profit off this software. (could but won't).
Show threadTaya NielsenApr 18, 2024
@alex Google really will do ANYTHING for money?
Show threadMattisCBApr 19, 2024
@alex workers of conscience? They are working at Google. Sorry, Dr. Evil, we enjoy henching in your evil empire, but that Moon "Laser" thing is going too far.
Show threadVoronApr 19, 2024
@alex #unions are the only option if we want any kind of just #economy or real #freedom