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Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

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

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Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday.

In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”

He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.”

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 7 months ago (20 children)

“Don’t be evil”

[–] [email protected] 112 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (18 children)

They dropped that one quietly a couple of years ago. I guess around the time they started doing contracts for Israel?

Edit: just Googled what this project nimbus is all about, and it sounds like basically building data centres in Israel, which is fair enough, but it ends with this titbit:

The terms Israel set for the project contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure.[7][8] The tech companies are also forbidden from denying service to any particular government entities.[8]

That's not something you put in your contract unless you're planning on doing something that'll attract boycotts

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is going on strike considered boycotting?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I guess Google didn't want to risk finding out.

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