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minus-square@IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•8 days agoDirect participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex. The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.
minus-square@RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 days agoThey had IDF contracts for decades as well. Seriously if they had a problem with this and this is not a PR stunt by this person they are choosing an odd time to make this statement.
minus-square@IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•8 days agoAn active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement? Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past. And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support. Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
minus-square@RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•8 days agoYes because their military work has been public for decades and it isn’t as if the IDF just started becoming problematic in 2023.
minus-square@Shardikprime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-28 days agoLiterally this It’s like they are signaling to the world how virtuous they are A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
minus-square@RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 days agoExactly, I would get if you work for a company that just got involved in the military fields but this is microsoft.
Direct participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex.
The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.
They had IDF contracts for decades as well. Seriously if they had a problem with this and this is not a PR stunt by this person they are choosing an odd time to make this statement.
An active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement?
Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past.
And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support.
Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
Yes because their military work has been public for decades and it isn’t as if the IDF just started becoming problematic in 2023.
Literally this
It’s like they are signaling to the world how virtuous they are
A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
Exactly, I would get if you work for a company that just got involved in the military fields but this is microsoft.