Helping a genocide is very much illegal. If you sell precursor chemicals for poison gas to a death camp operator, you are also complicit.
After Oct. 7 the usage by the IDF exploded. In early 2024 reports about the AI tools used to justify slaughtering Civilians en masse came out, employees have been raising alarms through the “proper” channels and then went to public protest as Microsoft ignored them and cracked down on any mention of it in Forums, Town Halls and the like.
They absolutely know that they are complicit and would rot in prison the rest of their lifes if this goes to court properly.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Isn’t the big problem that the US government does not classify the ongoing genocide and genocide?
Saleh@feddit.org 17 hours ago
As an internationally active company there is many jurisdictions, where Microsoft can be held accountable.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
I understand that but I don’t see it being relevant. Wasn’t Putin declared a war criminal by some nation states but then nothing happens? And didn’t the same happen to Israels prime minister? (Cant recall how to spell his name and not going to search for it now)
Maybe I’m just jaded but I don’t see consequences coming for those who deserve it, I mean, the president of the united states is a convicted criminal…
Saleh@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Putin cant visit most countries anymore. Netanyahu neither. Exceptions are the US who want to destroy the ICC anyways and recently Hungary who now want to leave the ICC to suck up to Netanyahu.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Yes, and Microsoft lawyers have certainly gone over the contracts and communications to ensure that they’re always going to have plausible deniability as to what their client was doing.
The best we could hope for is some engineers to become whistleblowers and share what was said during in-person meetings, unrecorded conversations and in side channels, like Signal chats.
No Microsoft executives will ever see any legal consequences for this.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Yeah… Thats most likely what is happening. Lets hope for the courage of people on the inside.