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Inconveniencing protests that go unrecognized or are criminalized lead to the next step: industrial sabotage.
Maybe Google needs to lose a few servers to captured NSO malware.
Google: don't be --evil--
Well they actually changed the motto because "don't be evil" was too ambiguous. The motto now is "do the right thing". It's now okay to be evil, as long as you're "doing the right thing".
Use two tildes (~) before and after:
Google: don't be ~~evil~~
Google: don't be ~~evil~~
more like google: ~~dont~~ be evil
I don't know, I kind of like the idea of someone deciding their company motto is to not exist at all.
Good luck with that sentiment. People tried to boycott products made or designed in Israel and then realized it's near impossible. Edit: Found a list
That list is not "products made or designed in Israel". That list is just companies that support Israel.
I just don't want anyone to have the false impression that a relationship with Israel is necessary. It definitely is not.
It's impossible to target all of them, yes. But that's why BDS creates a targeted list of the worst offenders to concentrate consumer boycott pressure.
Currently the BDS list includes 8 targets, including HP, Sabra, Siemens, Puma, and Soda stream. https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott
do steal them though. stealing them is good.
edit: this got down votes? let me explain: if you just dont buy them, someone else can. If you steal them, then whatever middleman spends the cost but doesn't make the profit. if lots of people steal them, the insurance on that cargo/merchandise goes up. it gets more expensive and eventually market forces mean those products won't get stocked, when theres any alternative.
which means they get less. you not having to go without, or even making a profit, is just a nice bonus.
Who would've thought an evil company would mistreat its employees. They literally work for a corporation whose main business involves violating your human rights, if they really care they wouldn't have worked there in the first place.
Instead they should just work for all those good companies that's everywhere under capitalism. Workers don't have a say in company policy and companies are as bad as they can be. The fact that nestle murder more people than Fazer , isn't about that one is more "evil" than the other, it's what they can get away with. Evil is a childish concept.
From "Don't be evil" to now, "Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb".
Last time I heard a line like that is by Dark Helmet in Space Balls.
Seems misleading, as I highly doubt they were charged with "protesting contract with Israel". Is that a misdemeanor?
Also love that Google workers suddenly grew a conscience
It's a trespassing charge from what I could find. Although there are laws against boycotting Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/21/us-supreme-court-arkansas-anti-boycott-israel-law
Thats so wild
The anti BDS laws are relevant to companies, not workers. Though it is still hilarious to me that we can't have religious freedom because companies have a first amendment right however they can't exercise that right in regards to Israel.
The GOP is just so transparently making shit up as they go along for their own convenience.
Yes. All 28 of them. Out of what, 180,000-ish?
Does this mean there are new open positions at Google?
"Hmm, these people got arrested for being against genocide. Sounds like a great place for me to work!"
I sure hope you're joking
You may underestimate the ongoing desperation for paid full time work with benefits in the US.
A lot of folk are one paycheck, one tragedy, one road accident or severe sickness away from homelessness.
And homelessness is already criminalized in some counties.
Well, I probably cannot get in there anyway so it's a bit moot. Plus it would mean a major relocation. But yeah, I'd happily work on an Israel contract.
Wow, that's disgusting. Have you no morals? Shame on you.
$200k a year and a pizza party are what his morals are worth, apparently.
position to be removed as downsizing opportunity following termination
I am seeing a lot of comments on here but the context not being mentioned is that they were protesting while clocked in or working on the clock.
Google is technically in authority to do that. The article is worded a bit out of context to make the act of protesting an a big company we all find to be evil more evil for letting employees go that were wasting company time.
I get it before you even type it I understand Google isn't short on money and the time portion won't effect them but has the employees protested while clocked out this would have been a less likely outcome and I also get it, "yeah they would have fired them anyway." Sure believe what you want but it doesn't take away that Google had the authority to fire while the employees were in their time no matter what they were protesting. If I did this at my job and was getting paid they would fire me as well.
EDIT: Lemmy is Reddit but it's full of users in denial.
Confidentially incorrect: at Google there is no clock in and no clock out (for employees, contractors is different). At Google you can work 1h per day or 20h per day you earn the same. Performances are assessed on the output not on the hour worked.
So, no, find another reason for which Google is right. Popular topic is “they disrupt other people work by making noise” (of course people can work on a laptop in another place because there is generally no special equipment at the desk but details) or “they destroyed properties… you cannot see in the picture but they destroyed millions of precious bacteria on the floor”
That's the point of protest. The rules are made to keep the status quo, not be good. And some rules suck balls.
It wouldn't be a very effective protest if they did it on their own time lol