During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, a Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.” They

that powers genocide

Great that he's standing up for himself!

or surveillance

...ok now why did you even send your resume to Google

Sure did take him a long time to get upset about surveillance.

They

“Earlier this week, an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation — interfering with an official company-sponsored event,” Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson says in an emailed statement. “This behavior is not okay, regardless of the issue, and the employee was terminated for violating our policies.”

I guess they've gone from 'disruptive' to 'disruption-averse'.

The only one abiding by Google’s original Don’t Be Evil motto.

I absolutely understand the sentiment of that engineer, but I also understand why they were fired. Maybe they wanted to get fired to make their point, but if they didn't, yelling at an executive during a meeting is always a good way to get yourself fired no matter what that executive is saying.

So while I don't want anyone building such technology either, I hope that person knew the consequences they were facing.

Respect.

respect

!degoogle@lemmy.ml

Good for him, but the ruling class has more than enough resources to replace him.