Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide is well documented, exposing its strong ties to the Israeli military, its collaboration with Israeli government ministries, and its involvement in the Israeli prison system, which is notorious for systematic torture and abuse of Palestinians. Microsoft knowingly provides Israel with technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), that is deployed to facilitate grave human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity (including apartheid), as well as genocide. In light of the International Court of Justice’s legally-binding rulings to prevent Israel’s plausible genocide in Gaza, as well as its July 19 Advisory Opinion affirming Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid system, Microsoft has failed its corporate obligation to prevent genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Microsoft, as well as its boards of directors and executives, may face criminal liability for this complicity.
Microsoft provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI services that are crucial in empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. Microsoft’s extensive ties with Israel’s military are revealed in investigations by The Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, demonstrating how the Israeli military turned to Microsoft to meet the technological demands of genocide.
I could probably find a thousand things you spend your money on that hurt people in some way, but I'm not going to hold you to that insane standard because I don't believe in ideological purity tests
No one expect a person to fully avoid every unethical product, most of companies, research, technology is built to kill people at first. However, people should at least try, giving up is basically aiding companies to fund more killing.
I'm not giving up, I'm just going to focus on the issues that are personally important to me
why commenting then ! if you are not interested in the cause against genocide then just keep quite instead of being irrelevant.
So we're only allowed to agree with things now?
there are different between: "I do not agree with boycotting microsoft for these reasons", and " I dont care about this cause" the second is basically "useless" or "pro genocide" comment.
I would say I care more about other causes, and also it's not like I was somehow an Azure customer anyways. You gotta pick like 2 or 3 causes to spend your energy on or you'll just be in a bad mood all the time