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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts / It’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. (www.seattletimes.com)
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[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Isn't the big problem that the US government does not classify the ongoing genocide as genocide?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

As an internationally active company there is many jurisdictions, where Microsoft can be held accountable.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I understand that but I don't see it being relevant. Wasn't Putin declared a war criminal by some nation states but then nothing happens? And didn't the same happen to Israels prime minister? (Cant recall how to spell his name and not going to search for it now)

Maybe I'm just jaded but I don't see consequences coming for those who deserve it, I mean, the president of the united states is a convicted criminal...

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Putin cant visit most countries anymore. Netanyahu neither. Exceptions are the US who want to destroy the ICC anyways and recently Hungary who now want to leave the ICC to suck up to Netanyahu.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and Microsoft lawyers have certainly gone over the contracts and communications to ensure that they’re always going to have plausible deniability as to what their client was doing.

The best we could hope for is some engineers to become whistleblowers and share what was said during in-person meetings, unrecorded conversations and in side channels, like Signal chats.

No Microsoft executives will ever see any legal consequences for this.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah... Thats most likely what is happening. Lets hope for the courage of people on the inside.