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Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy by ToucanLoucan on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:37PM (#48098887)
> American companies should not be allowing their tech to be used to in the gross ongoing human rights violations in Israel/Gaza/West Bank.

Fully agreed, but also a hard sell given that America itself does not recognize what is happening there as a genocide.

Something something man understanding depending on his salary.

Americans only give a shit about the price of gas and eggs. Whoever has to die to keep those down is apparently fine with the majority of our population.

Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy by bhouston on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:46PM (#48099030)
> Fully agreed, but also a hard sell given that America itself does not recognize what is happening there as a genocide.

This has nothing to do with a declaration of genocide. Both Amazon and Google respectively have made commitments to not enable human rights violations:

https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/human-rights/principl...

https://about.google/company-info/human-rights/

Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy by ToucanLoucan on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:52PM (#48099112)
Well clearly they didn't mean much, which is about what I expect from any corporate policy declaration such as. If you believed them anyway, congratulations on having far more faith in corporations than I do.
Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy by stasomatic on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:18PM (#48099442)
Like... all of us 300 million plus? Thanks dude.
Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy by XorNot on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:44PM (#48101069)
In a practical sense the voting majority of you all demonstrated that, and the rest of you are going along with it.
Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy by stasomatic on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:05PM (#48101288)
I agree, water is wet. Got anything else?
Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy by syeare on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @12:20AM (#48104158)
As if voting changes anything beyond the color ("red"/"blue") of the paid-off figurehead in power Voting hasn't been anywhere remotely close to real since the 20th century