To add some more context. Microsoft (and a lot of tech companies) have a relatively big presence in Israel, and that includes a lot of Israeli employees and acquired business.
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Why would Microsoft fire an employee for holding a vigil, it's not like they ...
...called “No Azure for Apartheid”
Oh. Thanks for drawing attention to this, Microsoft! I appreciate that they're so willing to invoke the Streisand Effect.
I hope those employees land somewhere where they build something that costs Microsoft a lot of profit.
Yeah, I don't think they would have been fired if they had just held a vigil without shitting all over their employers brands.
IBM provided business machines (internationally, even) to Nazi Germany, probably a big help in bureaucratically processing those millions of murders they were doing. I can't (or perhaps, "won't" is truer) imagine how much cloud compute a modern genocide requires.
Isn't it punishment enough having to use Azure? It's worse than having to use Google Cloud...