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Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
(www.theverge.com)
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Well, what did they expect?
They probably expected their employer not to participate in genocide.
What a dummy, right?!?! \s
Problems can be ongoing or increase in severity. Just because it’s been an issue for a while doesn’t mean it’s too late for change.
Also, some people don’t have the luxury to choose an ethical employer (if they even exist).
Ethical options?
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.
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.
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