Google fires engineer who protested at a company-sponsored Israeli tech conference

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fires engineer who protested at a company-sponsored ******** tech conference

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has fired a Cloud engineer who interrupted Barak Regev, the managing director of its business in *******, during a speech at an ******** tech event in New York, according to

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. “I’m a

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software engineer and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance!” the engineer was seen and heard shouting in a

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captured by freelance journalist Caroline Haskins that went viral online. While being dragged away by security — and amidst jeers from the audience — he continued talking and referenced Project Nimbus. That’s the $1.2 billion contract

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and

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had won to supply AI and other advanced technologies to the ******** military.

Last year, a group of

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employees published an open letter urging the company to cancel Project Nimbus, in addition to calling out the “hate, ****** and retaliation” *****, ******* and ************ workers are getting within the company. “Project Nimbus puts ************ community members in danger! I refuse to build technology that is gonna be used for cloud apartheid,” the engineer said. After he was removed from the venue, Regev told the audience that “[p]art of the privilege of working in a company, which represents democratic values is giving the stage for different opinions.” He ended his speech after a second protester interrupted and accused

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of being complicit in genocide.

A

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Cloud engineer just interrupted

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******* managing director Barak Regev at ******** tech industry conference MindTheTech this morning in NY.

“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide!” he yelled, referring to

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’s Project Nimbus contract

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— Caroline Haskins (@car0linehaskins)

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The incident took place during the MindTheTech conference in New York. Its theme for the year was apparently “Stand With ******** Tech,” because investments in ******* slowed down after the October 7 ****** attacks. Haskins

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of what she witnessed at the event, but she wasn’t able to stay until it wrapped up, because she was also thrown out by security.

The

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engineer who interrupted the event told Haskins that he wanted “other

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Cloud engineers to know that this is what engineering looks like — is standing in solidarity with the communities affected by your work.” He spoke to the journalist anonymously to avoid professional repercussions, but

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clearly found out who he was. A

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spokesperson told CNBC that he was fired for “interfering with an official company-sponsored event.” They also told the news organization that his “behavior is not okay, regardless of the issue” and that the “employee was terminated for violating [

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’s] policies.”

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