Literally this
It’s like they are signaling to the world guess virtuous they are
A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
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RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoThey had IDF contracts for decades as well. Seriously if they had a problem with this and this is not a PR stunt by this person they are choosing an odd time to make this statement.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 week ago
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Exactly, I would get if you work for a company that just got involved in the military fields but this is microsoft.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 week ago
An active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement?
Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past.
And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support.
Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yes because their military work has been public for decades and it isn’t as if the IDF just started becoming problematic in 2023.