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by pbiggar 1y ago
Surely you fight it by any means necessary? It's a genocide! Microsoft's tools and servers and people were involved in killing way over 60,000 people (and plausibly 300,000). I don't know how anyone could sit idly by in that
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by pbiggar 1y ago
I would argue that if your employer is helping a genocide, it's everyone's responsibility to fight it.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Microsoft is having a really bad time of it recently. Each of the 3 days of their Build conference was disrupted by protests of their involvement in the genocide. They got Satya's keynote: https://x.com/NoAz4Apartheid&#
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by pbiggar 1y ago
If you're going to contradict someone making a claim ("Because it seems like it's barely in the hundreds"), then it is their responsibility to back it up. I work on this area and spend a reasonable amount of time staying
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Inform me
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by pbiggar 1y ago
How many are currently protesting the genocide? Because it seems like it's barely in the hundreds
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Two other sets of powerful people in group chats doing bad things: - https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/bu
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by pbiggar 1y ago
The fact that these group chats were behind the Chesa Boudin recall campaign should surprise no-one.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
pg has been yelling about the Campus Left's Desire for Cancellation for years and years (I want to say since 2011?). It's been very frustrating to watch because lots of us identified this as right wing propaganda that (imo) pg was
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by pbiggar 1y ago
LinkedIn's approach has been to segregate pro-Palestinian content to a bubble where it's not shown to people outside it. Now, that is believed to be because they are deliberately trying to limit pro-Palestinian liberation content
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by pbiggar 1y ago
I used to not care about centralized or decentralized services, I just wanted to best product. Now I see how each of the major social media networks has been involved in censorship of Israel's genocide in Palestine (including btw HN),
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Actually, the problem the US had with Tiktok that was it did not censor people from talking about Palestine https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-tiktok-ban-linked-isra...
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Really, anyone working at any of the companies that are enabling or supporting ISrael's war on the people of Gaza are going to face this sooner or later. We remember the role of IBM and Hugo Boss and Volkswagon in the holocaust - we ar
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Similarly, pro-Palestine content on HN is highly suppressed.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
This is part of the trick that israel is trying to pull. Suppose you support Palestine liberation from Israel's violent occupation and apartheid, as does most of the world. Well, so does Hamas, so therefore you support Hamas' goa
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by pbiggar 2y ago
I've visited a handful of encampments. Super peaceful, mostly kids educating each other about colonialism and the history of Israel's occupation and apartheid. If you're looking for violence, the attacks on the Palestine enca
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Don't forget having a VC who allegedly bribes CISOs to use your product! See https://updates.techforpalestine.org/wiz-and-google-the-deal...
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by pbiggar 2y ago
I dunno, looks pretty bad https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/18/a-visual-guide...
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by pbiggar 2y ago
There is work you can do to help end Apple's complicity (though Microsoft is directly participating in the genocide) - you can find the folks working on Apple here: https://applesagainstapartheid.com/
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Israel has long used torture against Palestinian civilians. Some examples. "Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests": https://www.am
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Boycott of Microsoft Game Pass, Minecraft, New Xbox Consoles(dropsitenews.com)
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by pbiggar 2y ago
From wikipedia: "Deel Inc. is an Israeli-American outsourcing and human resources company,[3] based in San Francisco, California" Also, they're listed on https://www.israelitechalternatives.com/company/de
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by pbiggar 2y ago
100%! Between US tech surveilling the population, selling their data to data brokers, controlling what content they see, and surveilling even their customers customers, this has to happen extremely quickly. The end goal has to be that EU bu
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by pbiggar 2y ago
I think you might be missing the scale of the destruction and oppression of Palestine by Israel. Just look at what they did to Gaza https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20415675
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Tight networks largely. THey've invested heavily into having these "assets" in US tech companies, and so pro-Israel folks in the US work hard to acquire them in. See [1] to see the flow of people. I explain the connections a
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by pbiggar 2y ago
This is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into a US company in history. Y'all are in for a real bad time.
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Revisiting the Google / Wiz deal(updates.techforpalestine.org)
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by pbiggar 2y ago
We use Plane.com, as they are one of the few companies that support hiring in Palestine. Deel doesn't even list Palestine on their countries page, which tells you a lot about their ethics.
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Remember that Israeli companies, including Deel, are mostly founded by members of Unit 8200 who are literal spies. These folks have their formative technical experience being spying on Palestinians in order to keep the occupation going. Sim
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by pbiggar 2y ago
At Tech for Palestine, we've been investigating moving off many US based cloud services, with the intent of providing training, guidance, etc, for the broad population on how to do it and where to go. Our main conclusion so far is that

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