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Sexual harassment cases are much more black and white and actionable than genocide cases.

• tovej 2y ago
  Acting on them also has less of an impact on the bottom line, and doesn't sour the company's connections to Israeli or US military and defense industries. Corporations tend to act morally only when doing so aligns with their profit motives.
  • 0xBDB 2y ago
    Google has explicitly denied that Project Nimbus has anything to do with defense or military use. You can disbelieve this, of course, and I assume the internal protesters did disbelieve it or at least thought the tech was dual-use (I don't know what Nimbus actually is). But assuming it's true, and also assuming for the sake of argument that Israel is guilty of genocide, I think it raises an interesting question: do otherwise genocidal governments still need and deserve the right to buy civilian infrastructure to support their own people? I think they do, and that depriving them of that infrastructure could itself rise to the level of a crime (if taken to an extreme).
    • racional 2y ago
      Google has explicitly denied that Project Nimbus has anything to do with defense or military use. And yet the IDF and other security agencies in Israel are proudly boasted of as clients in their own press releases.