Google fired the courageous Google cloud employee who peacefully demonstrated during a presentation in New York by an executive of the company’s headquarters in Israel.
The now ex-employee said,“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid or surveillance,” in reference to Google’s Nimbus project with the Israeli government.
Some employees at Google have shown justifiable resistance to the company continuing to provide technology and services to military projects in the U.S. and other countries.
Google workers and NYC community demonstrating outside the “Mind The Tech” conference.
The Nimbus project is a $1.2 billion contract between Google, Amazon and the Israeli government and military to provide artificial intelligence and cloud service active from 2021.
The brave act occurred during Mind the Tech, an event promoting the Israeli technology industry. The then employee took advantage of this platform to state:
I am a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid or surveillance, project Nimbus puts Palestinian community members in danger. I refuse to build technology that is going to be used for cloud apartheid. NO CLOUD FOR APARTHEID, NO TECH FOR APARTHEID, FREE PALESTINE, STOP THE GENOCIDE.
In the video another attendee can be seen pushing the employee shortly before being forcibly removed from the venue by security personnel.
Google, a company that boasts of “democratic” values and promoting “diversity,” has joined the group of companies trying to silence dissent to U.S. support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
With information from No Tech For Apartheid (Medium link).
