Google sacks staff protesting over Israeli contract

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Google has sacked 28 workers who took part in protests against a deal the technology giant has with the Israeli government.

Google has a joint contract with Amazon worth $1.2bn (£9.6m) called Project Nimbus which provides Israel's government and military with cloud computing and AI infrastructure.

Employees affiliated with the protest group No Tech For Apartheid, staged sit-ins at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale, California offices.

Google said Project Nimbus "is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services”.

Google said protesters were disrupting offices and were “physically impeding other employees' work and preventing them from accessing facilities”.

Google sacked staff protesting about contract with Israel

Google sacked 28 staff members for taking part in protests against a contract with the Israeli government.

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[Jam Sandwich]

Shalom....

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Excellent news. It appears that some employees don't grow out of their immature student politics days...

 

[UrBaN963]

Excellent. Fire all of them.

Whatever your beliefs, you don't get to prevent other people from doing their jobs.

 

[Solarion]

Google said Project Nimbus "is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services”.

You have a contract with the military. There is no way to paint this bicycle and make it look like a car. It's still a bicycle my hopelessly clueless little spring chickens.

 

[Speedster]

We have a contract with the military. There is no other way to paint this bicycle my dears. It's still a bicycle.

And what's wrong with having a contract with the military?

 

[Solarion]

And what's wrong with having a contract with the military?

They denied it involved military workloads. Literally the entire military structure is centered logistics, right down to the last shoelace.

 

[upup]

honorable Pandor now wants to sue google.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

honorable Pandor now wants to sue google.

Internet genocide...

 

[Fulcrum29]

You have a contract with the military. There is no way to paint this bicycle and make it look like a car. It's still a bicycle my hopelessly clueless little spring chickens.

It is a bit more involved than the military. Amazon is also involved, and the true aim is to build a local cloud to keep data within their borders. Three data centers are being built.

All in all, it will be by design to protect their data. To which lengths I don't know. It is sensitive, and I can only assume that protesting against it is considered harm to another nation's sovereignty as set out in the agreement. It is not exactly an agreement that Google and Amazon can exit, and the US government is likely intimately involved too.

It is the same as with our own data sovereignty policies which have been under scrutiny.