Microsoft protesters occupy presidents office as company reviews its work with Israels military
Redmond arrested seven people on Tuesday after invading Microsoft President Brad Smith office as a part of the constant protests on the relations of the company with the Israeli defense forces during the ongoing war in Gaza.
He said that the protest group was not Azure for Apartheid. Azure is the primary cloud computing platform of Microsoft, and Microsoft said that this month is using Israel to facilitate the attacks on Palestinian goals in an British newspaper.
While protesters, civil servants moved to arrest them, they could be gathered together in a live broadcast. The video showed another group outside.
During a media briefing in the afternoon, Smith said that two of the arrested were Microsoft employees.
Eighteen people were arrested in a similar protest in a plaza last week. The group company has been protesting for months. In May, Microsoft fired an employee who interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s speech and fired two people who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration in April.
The group’s demands include the company cutting its ties with Israel and paying compensation to the Palestinians.
The British newspaper The Guardian reported that the Israeli Defense Forces used Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Computing platform to store the phone call data obtained by mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Microsoft said that he rented an external law firm to investigate allegations, but that the conditions of service will prohibit this use.
Following the arrests on Tuesday, he told reporters, “There are many things we can’t do to change the world, but we will do our best and what we should do.” “This begins by ensuring that our human rights principles and contract -based service conditions are approved by all our customers in the world everywhere.”
Earlier this year, the Associated Press explained details about Microsoft’s close partnership with the Israeli Defense Ministry, which uses Azure to copy, translate and process intelligence collected through mass surveillance. Data reported that Israel can be controlled by in -house AI systems to help select targets.
After Microsoft’s report, he said that a review, Azure platform and artificial intelligence technologies were used to target or harm people in Gaza. Microsoft did not share a copy of this review, but the company said that the Guardian would share real findings without further examination.
In a statement on Tuesday, protest groups said that disruptions were “protesting Microsoft’s active role in the genocide of Palestinians”.
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