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Big Tech and the genocide in Gaza: what are companies doing? (www.accessnow.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21271254

Technology is playing a central role in enabling the relentless mass slaughter and destruction unleashed in Gaza. From supplying the dystopian AI systems used to automate the killing and bombing, to facilitating the spread of state-sponsored disinformation and online incitement to violence and war crimes, Big Tech is deeply embroiled in this brutal war. However, the impunity with which Israeli authorities have been allowed to wage this war has also served to shield technology companies from scrutiny. Not only have companies failed to uphold their human rights commitments in times of war, they have also dismissed, ignored, and even punished dissenting voices among their own ranks, civil society, and the public flagging their possible complicity in what the UN’s top independent expert on Palestine describes as an unfolding genocide.

This post interrogates how technology companies can be potentially facilitating or contributing to an endless list of egregious violations of international law, including the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, currently under investigation by the ICJ and the International Criminal Court (ICC). We also provide companies with recommendations to avoid potential complicity in such violations.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Helping. They are helping.

Innocent civilians are dying so Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon can make more money. Seems mostly related to AI, but I'm sure it's only the tip of the iceberg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do you mean, they are helping? And how is it related to AI?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Trying to develop AI helping killer scanner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Search up Pegasus(spyware) on your preferred search engine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Where there is money companies are here. Fuck this

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Technology is used in a war.

Even on both sides.

No news so far.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I could not think of a way you could have missed the point harder. The point of the article is that firms based in non-belligerent states are offering services to a government that has slaughtered children on an industrial scale for the past year. The article is talking about the legal and moral scrutiny that this monstrous cooperation demands and the ways in which this complicity is buried. You may as well have responddd to an article about 1930s IBM with this tripe.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I could not think of ...

Try harder, or get some help .... /s

I have understood your (and OP's) intention very well. You want people to take sides in this war, and you are trying to tell me which side is the right one, and which side is the wrong one.

But I refuse to take sides. My side is the neutral one.

And so I made a neutral statement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, we are all very, very invested in your support and are seeking to trick you into taking sides. You are very intelligent and got one over on us 👌. Please keep contributing inane statements to signal that you're not being fooled.