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Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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post #8

They should've protested outside, not disturbing others.

The people inside should maybe, I don't know, not be working at a company aiding and abetting apartheid and expecting to not be disturbed? Seems like putting up with a few disturbances is a small price to pay given the high compensation you'll get for working at google. These people will be quickly escorted outside the building by police and fired anyways.

Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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> Several Google employees were arrested Tuesday evening at the company’s offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif., after staging sit-ins to protest the tech giant’s work with the Israeli government The obvious question here is "how old were these employees?". The article doesn't even bring it up.

Why is that an obvious question?

Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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post #25
post #14

They said nimbus was for civilian use only, then time publishes an article saying they are dealing with the IDF directly and have a discount given that Nimbus exists… https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-mini...

It's pretty weak proof. It only says some part of it was billed to the ministry of defense. Who knows what it was used for? It could be their HR, billing, etc.

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Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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post #3

Land of the free. Indeed it is.

Freedom on full display. Employees free to break their employment contract. Employer free to fire them. Let me guess, you want power to control what people and companies can or can not do? I don’t trust you enough to put you in control of that.

Freedom to profit from war in privacy.

Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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Regardless of your opinion of the Daily Wire, they have an in-depth article with details that the Washington Post omitted. With hyperlinks to each source: https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-employees-occupy-offic...

doesn't matter how "in-depth" it is, it's still the daily wire and not trustworthy

Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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They didn't just "protest" their company's work with Israel. They took over company offices, including the office of Google Cloud CEO in Sunnyvale, and refused to vacate them for 9+ hours.

Yes... That's what protest looks like.

There are lots of ways to protest, and plenty of them don’t involve impeding others or trespassing on private property to make their point. We have parks and government centers and sidewalks they can do it in. Your right to protest does not supersede the rights of others.

And these are (were) employees and it’s quite likely Google already has established mechanisms for hearing employee grievances. Google’s not going to allow a small but vocal and disruptive group to override those existing mechanisms, nor would any serious business.

Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These posters would prefer all protests be relegated to a closed studio TV channel you can simply avoid ever tuning into, and a state that punishes deviancy from that

I prefer if the protests are relegated to a TV channel I can simply avoid ever tuning into (like CNN or MSNBC). I am not sure what state you have in mind, but US does not punish deviance from anything.

As can be seen here, they did punish these protesters. And the House has just passed a resolution saying that the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is antisemitic. Many states, such as Texas, require written commitments from all state employees that they will not engage in the BDS movement or other forms of protest against Israel.

How are these not a punishment for deviance from the desired positon?

Edit: punish, not publish.

Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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post #35

Regardless of your opinion of the Daily Wire, they have an in-depth article with details that the Washington Post omitted. With hyperlinks to each source: https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-employees-occupy-offic...

doesn't matter how "in-depth" it is, it's still the daily wire and not trustworthy

The only bipartisanship today seems to be the substitution of curiosity for tribalism
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