BDS is a global movement calling for boycotts, divestment and ultimately sanctions of Israel and companies complicit in Israels illegal occupation and other crimes against the Palestinian people.
Microsoft provides AI tools to the Israeli army -IDF- which are used to automatically designate people as targets for bombing. Among other things a particular heinous AI is infamously named “Where’s Daddy”, where bombings are timed so that the target is killed upon arriving home, so their entire family is also murdered.
Let’s see
I’m shocked that it’s not selling, absolutely shocked.
And also, for some of us:
TRUE, I knew I was forgetting something else
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https://bdsmovement.net/
BDS is a global movement calling for boycotts, divestment and ultimately sanctions of Israel and companies complicit in Israels illegal occupation and other crimes against the Palestinian people.
Microsoft provides AI tools to the Israeli army -IDF- which are used to automatically designate people as targets for bombing. Among other things a particular heinous AI is infamously named “Where’s Daddy”, where bombings are timed so that the target is killed upon arriving home, so their entire family is also murdered.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-israel-military-gaza-hamas-artificial-intelligence-20b2adb438b39ee9cb6eb2f52c1ae44a
Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, iD-Software, Zenimax, Mojang (Minecraft) and others are all owned by Microsoft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Gaming_studios
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askldjfals;jflsad;
Microsoft (and by extension id and Bethesda) are a priority target for the BDS boycotts against Israel
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Google says BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (against Isreal.)
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askldjfals;jflsad;
Since the company boyscotts BDS. I guess it means the company is pro Isreal.