Big Tech and the risk of genocide in Gaza
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Big Tech is playing a central role in enabling the relentless mass slaughter and destruction unleashed in the war in Gaza.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21271254

Technology is playing a central role in enabling the relentless mass slaughter and destruction unleashed in Gaza. From supplying the dystopian AI systems used to automate the killing and bombing, to facilitating the spread of state-sponsored disinformation and online incitement to violence and war crimes, Big Tech is deeply embroiled in this brutal war. However, the impunity with which Israeli authorities have been allowed to wage this war has also served to shield technology companies from scrutiny. Not only have companies failed to uphold their human rights commitments in times of war, they have also dismissed, ignored, and even punished dissenting voices among their own ranks, civil society, and the public flagging their possible complicity in what the UN’s top independent expert on Palestine describes as an unfolding genocide.

This post interrogates how technology companies can be potentially facilitating or contributing to an endless list of egregious violations of international law, including the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, currently under investigation by the ICJ and the International Criminal Court (ICC). We also provide companies with recommendations to avoid potential complicity in such violations.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    266·
    2 months ago

    Helping. They are helping.

    Innocent civilians are dying so Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon can make more money. Seems mostly related to AI, but I’m sure it’s only the tip of the iceberg.

    • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      2 months ago

      I could not think of a way you could have missed the point harder. The point of the article is that firms based in non-belligerent states are offering services to a government that has slaughtered children on an industrial scale for the past year. The article is talking about the legal and moral scrutiny that this monstrous cooperation demands and the ways in which this complicity is buried. You may as well have responddd to an article about 1930s IBM with this tripe.

      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        2 months ago

        I could not think of …

        Try harder, or get some help … /s

        I have understood your (and OP’s) intention very well. You want people to take sides in this war, and you are trying to tell me which side is the right one, and which side is the wrong one.

        But I refuse to take sides. My side is the neutral one.

        And so I made a neutral statement.

        • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          2 months ago

          Yes, we are all very, very invested in your support and are seeking to trick you into taking sides. You are very intelligent and got one over on us 👌. Please keep contributing inane statements to signal that you’re not being fooled.