this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
486 points (87.9% liked)

memes

10095 readers
1865 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Its time to switch to Linux!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They just fired two workers for organizing a protest against supporting Israel. You don't have to make up conspiracy theories to convince people that Microsoft: Bad.

Step 1: damage your customers

Step 2: ?

Step 3: profit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

IIRC it wasn't even a protest, it was a vigil for Gaza, so it was an act of remembrance for those who are suffering. Which makes it an even stranger thing to get fired for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The article is light on details, but one of the fired individuals, Hossam Nasr, said the purpose of the vigil was both “to honor the victims of the Palestinian genocide in Gaza and to call attention to Microsoft’s complicity in the genocide” because of the use of its technology by the Israeli military.

Not that I think they shouldn’t have the right to protest, but it was clearly more than “just” a vigil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Most big companies are bad, to be fair.