cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32908689

His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.

“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.

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    4 hours ago

    The US:

    Brown people dying… nah it’s cool nothing to see here.

    White people dying… The fuck you just say you fucking fuck?

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    Germans murdering jews - poor jews. Jews murdering Palestinians - poor jews. What am I missing here? 🤔

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      And also the guy whose company, in the olden days of Hangouts and Google Wave, many people considered to be “the corporation of good”.

      And compared to Facebook, Apple, of course MS, yadda-yadda that was easy to believe.

      So - that’s the price of “cool and respectable”.

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    With all due respect

    Buddy, nobody cares about your respect if you can’t make simple choices like this.

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    Lots of people are annoyed by genocide, I would say more so than those annoyed by the use of the term. That doesn’t even count the dead.

    Of you contract to a military that genocides, you’re complicit. I don’t run a company working with the IDF and I knew it was a risky endeavour.