Daring FireballApr 19, 2024
Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/18/google-fires-28
Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133700/google-fires-28-employees-protest-israel-cloud-contract

Daring Fireball
Show threadRob Shearer

@daringfireball There was a quote in one of the stories about this: “workers have a right to object to how their work is being used”. Lots of nuance, but worth considering.

What drives me crazy about Googlers’ political entitlement is that they are ~always objecting to *other* people’s work. 1/2

Apr 19, 2024 at 1:20pmIvory for iOS
Show threadRob ShearerApr 19, 2024

@daringfireball When I worked there, I had moral qualms with their surveillance business model. So I refused to work for the ads division. Meanwhile, ads folks were crying “How dare Cloud sell commodity services to our own government‽”

They seem to imagine that 180,000 employees should all have veto power over what everyone else is doing.

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