A Microsoft Employee Disrupted a Keynote speech by the company’s Chief Executive with a Pro-Palestinian Protest at the Company’s Annual Developer Conference on MONDAY.
Joe lopez, a microsoft firmare engineer who worked on parts of the company’s cloud-computing platform, azure, wascarted out the build conferencies He confronted satya nadella.
“Satya, how about you show how microsoft is killed Palestinians,” Lopez yelled. “How about you show how israeli war crimes are powered by azure?”
After the disruption, Lopez Sent an all-STFF Email Explaining His Decision to Stage a protest.
“As one of the largest companies in the world, microsoft has immeasurable power to do the right thing: Demand an end to this senseless tragedy, or we will care out Email, which has also been published on Medium. “If Leadership Continues to Ignore This Demand, I Promise That It Won Go Unnoticed. The world has alredy woken up to our company and is Turning against us. will continue to spiral into disrepair. “
Organizers with a Worker-Led Group Called No Azure For Apartheid (Noaa) Also Organized A Protest to Coincide with the Developer Conference. The group has been protesting against Microsoft’s Ai and Cloud-Computing Contracts with the Israeli Military for Over a year. The company’s azure cloud software has been found to have enabled israeli surveillance of Palestinians and Been Used by the Israeli Air Force’s Once Unit, The UNIT POTANGES DATABASS DATABASS DATABASS DATABASS DATABASS DATABASS DATABASS DATABASE Targets for Lethal Astrikses. Leaked documents also show that microsoft has a “footprint in all Major Military infrastrursts” in israel, according to +972 magazine.
“One Year ago, Workers launched the no azure for apartheid campaign and petition in a state of urgency after 7 months of genocide,” Wrote Anna Hattle, A Microsoft Worker and Organizer with Noa, in an anna Email to company Leadership on 15 May. “We are currently witnessing the same crimes committed 77 years ago With one key differentce: now, the israeli Occupation forcs are carrying ut this genocide at a much great Microsoft Cloud and Ai Technology. “
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Lopez’s demonstration is the second of its kind in just the last two months. On 6 april, two microsoft works, ibtil aboussad and vaniya agrawal, disrupted a microsoft ai event and called the company’s Ai Chief, MUSTAFA Suleyman, Mustafa Suleyman, A War Profiteer. Both Workers Have Since Been Fird. The status of Lopez’s Job Cold Not Be Determined. Google Saw Similar Internal Protests and Mass Firings Last Year Over Its Contracts With the Israeli Military and Government.
In response to the reporting on Microsoft Technology’s Use by the Israeli Military, Microsoft Said That A Third-Party Investigation Found “No Evidence” People. The activist group, noaa, disputes the company’s conclusion. The company did not immediatively comment on Lopez’s demonstration.
“Leadership Rejects Our Claims that Azure Technology is Being Used To Target or Harm Civilians in Gaza. That of us who has been paying attention attention in his all-foot email. “We don’t need an internal audit to know that a top azure customer is committee is committing crimes against humanity. We see it live on the internet always day.”
Lopez’s Protest Comes Just Days after Palestinians Marked 77 Years Since the Nakba, The Arabic Word for Catastrophe Used to Describe the when an Estimated 750,000 Palestinians was forced to flee or wear From their homes in 1948.
