The timing of the leak is interesting. It might point to the fact that situation on ground in Gaza is dire enough that big companies want some plausible deniability. This is just a speculation though.
Tech companies don't care about Gaza. They have nothing to lose and everything you gain by openly supporting the genocide in Gaza (as long as they don't use that word) because that's where the money and power is. Only if Hamas successfully destroyed Israel AND the powers that be started considering them the good guys, would Google ever suffer and disadvantage from this. And neither of those things will happen.
I don't understand why people keep using the word genocide for Gaza
It is a disservice to Palestinians
People just love using that word
You can basically call any war a genocide if civilians are dying
Because it is one?
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/05/14/zeven-gerenommeerde-wet...
It is one. Literally the experts in this field agree that it is one.
At this point, not using that term by the average person is genocide denial.
You may have an opinion that it’s not genocide. However you should be ready to take on the people who have made studying genocide their life work.
The facts are, well, different: As of now:
No international court has ruled that genocide has been committed by either side.
The term "genocide" is used politically and emotionally by many, but legally it carries a very high burden of proof.
The ICJ case and other investigations (e.g., by the International Criminal Court) are ongoing and may shape future judgments.
Google worried it cant control how [insert name of any foreign country] could use their cloud infrastructure.
I mean I understand the concerns but they are the same of us giving any other country cloud infrastructure tooling, which doesn't just magically happen to just any country to be fair.
If its not Google then it will be any defense contractors and cloud provider that just wants to print dollar bills.
When those employees protested the project and were fired, I think they lost the right to pretend they care lol
That was very satisfying to watch lol
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Because of two things:
Money
They think they're working for the winning side. Or side that's going to win.
As long as they win nobody will care.
Makes money. Also they support it.
'Ethics never made anyone rich'?
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Wtf? You can't post like that here and we've banned the account.
Don't be evil ( unless you can make boat loads of money )
Obvious bullshit is obvious. The project did exactly what it was intended to do.
The OP account has had 72 of their last 90 submissions flagged/killed. How is a situation like this not an automatic, algorithmic, shadow-ban? Why allow someone like this to continue "contributing"?
Don’t play dumb a number of the submissions involve Israel . Why negative submission involving Israel are down voted continues to be a mystery
What about the OP's submission strikes you as violating HN's TOS or Code of Conduct?
TheIntercept is legit journalism, no need to put "contributing" in quotes.