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Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-fired-workers-israel-palestinians-gaza-72de6fe1f35db9398e3b6785203c6bbf

Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas. Microsoft said Friday it has “ended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy” but declined to provide details. The event happened during lunchtime Thursday at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. It's the latest internal turmoil at a tech giant over the war in Gaza. Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war.

AP News
Oct 26, 2024 at 8:45pmWeb
Show threadBadriOct 27, 2024
@lashman unfortunately I don't hsve Microsoft or I would quit it now
Show threadfamubuOct 27, 2024

> Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog
> group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the
> call from Microsoft

This doesn't sound good...

Show threadbufalo1973Oct 27, 2024
@lashman
Another reason to not use anything from that shitty business.
Show threadAxel FoleyOct 27, 2024
@lashman Linux, you know it makes sense 👍
Show thread🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣Oct 27, 2024

@lashman

M$ has always been a fascist company… mass surveillance, contracts with the ICE….

Like pretty much all capitalist corpo-rat-ions, capitalists and fascists, warmongers, colonialist… have always been allies.

Show threadlashmanOct 27, 2024
@devnull yup, sounds about right
Show threadSpoonie Activist (he/him)Oct 27, 2024

@lashman
The article mention a group called "Stop Antisemitism"

From the article:

"Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn’t immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on how it learned about the firing.

The same group had months earlier called on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to take action against Nasr for his public stances on Israel."

Show threadlashmanOct 27, 2024
@uva not even surprised
Show threadRastalOct 27, 2024

@lashman Because Microsoft (and for that matter the Microsoft founder Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) are the ones paying for the escalations and paying to direct government policy towards Israel.

MS pays for the killing of Palestinians and Lebanese by funding the geopolitical think tanks which directly influence government policy on Israel and on this war in particular. That's why they don't tolerate dissent.

#palestine #lebanon #geopolitics #microsoft #G3P

Show threadJasper 🍉Oct 27, 2024
@Rastal @lashman remember when they were evil because they forced their OS onto sold PCs? And like some corpo shit. Those were the days...
Show threadFerryoonsOct 27, 2024
@lashman Another reason, as if I needed one, not to use Microsoft.
Show threadcaitpOct 27, 2024
@lashman we can't be having these stupid groups threatening people's livelihoods for simply mourning victims of war crimes, it's absurd
Show threadlashmanOct 27, 2024
@caitp agreed!