Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
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#2Weirdly, I don't see any sources here even though the article suggests some of them wrote online. It seems none of them are named in this article. I'd really be curious if any names I recognize are on the list, but I doubt it.
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#3“about a dozen employees”.
The 'maven' story was published in early march, it’s an 80k employee company, that is not even a blip within their natural turnover rate.
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#4>the company has defended its work on Maven and is thought to be one of the lead contenders for another major Pentagon cloud computing contract, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, better known as JEDI, that is currently up for bids.
I'd say Google has closer ties to the military industrial complex than for example Huawei does to the PLA. I not only think that Google should be banned outside of the US, but that it must be.
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#5Nice!. More openings for people like me.
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#6I'm glad this attitude didn't exist in the 1940s. Otherwise we all might be speaking German.
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#7If alphabet is the one with the machine learning contract with the government, at least they can run it conscientiously. Other companies and employees might not care about ethics as much; would these Google employees regret not having some control over this process?
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#8>the company has defended its work on Maven and is thought to be one of the lead contenders for another major Pentagon cloud computing contract, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, better known as JEDI, that is currently up for bids. I'd say Google has closer ties to the military industrial complex than for example Huawei does to the PLA. I not only think that Google should be banned outside of the US, but t…
It's a cloud contract the other major cloud providers are bidding on it as well.
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#9I'm glad this attitude didn't exist in the 1940s. Otherwise we all might be speaking German.
What's the existential, Germany&Japan-level threat we're facing right now?
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