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We are Google and Amazon workers. We condemn Project Nimbus | Anonymous Google and Amazon workers

We cannot support our employer’s decision to supply the Israeli military and government technology that is used to harm Palestinians

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We are writing as Google and Amazon employees of conscience from diverse backgrounds. We believe that the technology we build should work to serve and uplift people everywhere, including all of our users. As workers who keep these companies running, we are morally obligated to speak out against violations of these core values. For this reason, we are compelled to call on the leaders of Amazon and Google to pull out of Project Nimbus and cut all ties with the Israeli military. So far, more than 90 workers at Google and more than 300 at Amazon have signed this letter internally. We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.

We have watched Google and Amazon aggressively pursue contracts with institutions like the US Department of Defense, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), and state and local police departments. These contracts are part of a disturbing pattern of militarization, lack of transparency and avoidance of oversight.

Continuing this pattern, our employers signed a contract called Project Nimbus to sell dangerous technology to the Israeli military and government. This contract was signed the same week that the Israeli military attacked Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – killing nearly 250 people, including more than 60 children. The technology our companies have contracted to build will make the systematic discrimination and displacement carried out by the Israeli military and government even crueler and deadlier for Palestinians.

Project Nimbus is a $1.2bn contract to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and government. This technology allows for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians, and facilitates expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land.

We cannot look the other way, as the products we build are used to deny Palestinians their basic rights, force Palestinians out of their homes and attack Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – actions that have prompted war crime investigations by the international criminal court.

We envision a future where technology brings people together and makes life better for everyone. To build that brighter future, the companies we work for need to stop contracting with any and all militarized organizations in the US and beyond. These contracts harm the communities of technology workers and users alike. While we publicly promise to uplift and assist our users, contracts such as these secretly facilitate the surveillance and targeting of those same users.

We condemn Amazon and Google’s decision to sign the Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli military and government, and ask them to reject this contract and future contracts that will harm our users. We call on global technology workers and the international community to join with us in building a world where technology promotes safety and dignity for all.

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[Knight of the Rope]

We are writing as Google and Amazon employees of conscience from diverse backgrounds. We believe that the technology we build should work to serve and uplift people everywhere, including all of our users.

Hon, I'm pretty sure they don't even bother saying platitudes like that in their media releases and shareholder meetings anymore. If you honestly believe that about Google and Amazon (and literally any company) at this point, it's really on you.

We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.

Retribution like getting fucking fired, because your employers can find another soyjack code monkey in a second and you damn well know it? Shut up and get back to work.

 

[thx1138]

"Our technology was only meant to spy on and subjugate the American people under corporate oligarchy, tied to an Orwellian surveillance state headed by a political party whose sole refrain since the 2000 election has been vengeance on the middle class for daring to object to their replacement and the degradation of the United States, not Israel!"

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Remember when you worked, got your paycheck, and shut the fuck up?

I'm honestly thinking we need to go back to that.

Any time employees pull shit like this they should find themselves out on the street before the pixels dry.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Remember when you worked, got your paycheck, and shut the fuck up?

I'm honestly thinking we need to go back to that.

Any time employees pull shit like this they should find themselves out on the street before the pixels dry.

I don't remember that. I fix however, remember violent union strikes and corpos locking people in factories.

 

[Spoonge]

Remember when you worked, got your paycheck, and shut the fuck up?

Not really. Jimmy Hoffa. The mob. The Pinkertons. The 1886 railway strikes. The mexican silver strikes in the 1700s. Thst shit with the Poles in the 1600s. Workers protests have been happening since industrialization.

Of course this is a real new level of petty compared to the old union wars.

 

[Just Another Apocalypse]

" disturbing pattern of militarization, lack of transparency and avoidance of oversight."

Dude. Amazon is a fucking front for The Company.

 

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