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Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Love all the people that see repercussions for protesting and their first thought is 'boy, those guys sure we're stupid. Now they've lost their jobs'

Maybe the people doing the protests accepted that as a risk they were willing to take? Perhaps even the next steps were mass resignations? Hmmmmmm

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Yes, maybe all those commenters could be simply called self-censored vendor locked in. This is also not the first time Google has been firing critical voices, it is quite frankly tempting to say "it happens all the time".