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Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in cloud chief’s office.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:48 pm
Shocked I tell you. Look at these idiots still wearing masks.
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Nine Google
workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office.
The arrests, which were livestreamed on Twitch by participants, follow rallies outside Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale and Seattle, which attracted hundreds of attendees, according to workers involved. The protests, led by the “No Tech for Apartheid” organization, focused on Project Nimbus — Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services, including artificial intelligence tools, data centers and other cloud infrastructure.
Protesters in Sunnyvale sat in Kurian’s office for more than nine hours until their arrests, writing demands on Kurian’s whiteboard and wearing shirts that read “Googler against genocide.” In New York, protesters sat in a three-floor common space. Five workers from Sunnyvale and four from New York were arrested.
“On a personal level, I am opposed to Google taking any military contracts — no matter which government they’re with or what exactly the contract is about,” Cheyne Anderson, a Google Cloud software engineer based in Washington, told CNBC. “And I hold that opinion because Google is an international company and no matter which military it’s with, there are always going to be people on the receiving end... represented in Google’s employee base and also our user base.” Anderson had flown to Sunnyvale for the protest in Kurian’s office and was one of the workers arrested Tuesday.
“Google Cloud supports numerous governments around the world in countries where we operate, including the Israeli government, with our generally available cloud computing services,” a Google spokesperson told CNBC, adding, “This work is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”
The demonstrations show Google’s increased pressure from workers who oppose military use of its AI and cloud technology. Last month, Google Cloud engineer Eddie Hatfield interrupted a keynote speech from the managing director of Google’s Israel business stating, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” Hatfield was subsequently fired. That same week, an internal Google employee message board was shut down after staffers posted comments about the company’s Israeli military contracts. A spokesperson at the time described the posts as “divisive content that is disruptive to our workplace.”
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:51 pm to Tower_Tiger12
I bet the males involved could frick Froot Loops without breaking them.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:52 pm to loogaroo
Fire them. Nothings but termination.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:56 pm to LEASTBAY
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Were they fired though?
Don't know yet, but I would image they will be.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:59 pm to loogaroo
They look exactly like you'd expect
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:02 pm to loogaroo
Whichever one was screaming "bloodlust" over and over is Mo Jeaux.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:10 pm to loogaroo
So many of these IT people are weirdo leftist dorks. It has to be because they can't function socially around other people. They've always been weird and nobody ever wanted to be around them so they pretty much lived on electronic devices since they were 5
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:34 pm to Feelthebarn
I would have to think working at Google would be a fairly sweet paying gig. I can't believe you would waste a job on that.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:36 pm to loogaroo
I can smell them from here. BO, flatulence, and patchouli.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:36 pm to loogaroo
If they were really against genocide they would be asking to ask Google to stop doing business in Chicago,Philly, Detroit, or DC.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:36 pm to loogaroo
Good luck finding a paying job close to the one you just got fire from. Especially in this economy.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:42 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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Good luck finding a paying job close to the one you just got fire from. Especially in this economy.
They can wear their righteousness as a badge of honor as they move back in to their parents basement.
Or get a job as a barista.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:51 pm to loogaroo
That is a group photo of people who belong in a mental institution.
What a bunch of losers.
What a bunch of losers.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:55 pm to lsufan1971
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If they were really against genocide they would be asking to ask Google to stop doing business in Chicago,Philly, Detroit, or DC.
Or China, which actually is perpetrating a genocide.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 10:12 pm to loogaroo
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Look at these idiots still wearing masks.
Let them have to wipe their asses with them when they need to schite.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 10:18 pm to loogaroo
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On a personal level, I am opposed to Google taking any military contracts — no matter which government they’re with or what exactly the contract is about,”
I didn’t realized this person was forced to work at Google. If only she had a choice.
Oh well.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 10:19 pm to loogaroo
Annnnd there's the purple hair on the bottom row. Maybe blue. These idiots don't give a frick about people over there getting hurt, they just want to go along with the cool crowd and there are no consequences for it. Start prosecuting and handing out a couple of months in county jail and this shite will stop
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