The Google workplace has been hit by protests by employees in recent times over its relations with militaries of US and other countries
A Google employee was fired after he disrupted the keynote address addressed by the managing director of the search engine giant’s Israel business over the company’s contract with the Israel military, CNBC reported.A viral video shows the now former Google Cloud engineer standing up and interrupting the top executive, saying,”I refuse to build technology that powers genocide”. Hindustan Times cannot independently verify the authenticity of this viral video.
According to the report, Google’s employee message board was hit by comments from employee on the search engine behemoth’s ties with the Israeli military. The online forum was shut down for what a Google spokesperson described as ‘divisive content that is disruptive’ to the workplace.ALSO READ: Ex-Google employee’s ordeal after working for 10 years at tech giant