Posted on 02/24/2019 12:37:14 PM PST by lowbridge
More than 150 Microsoft employees signed a letter demanding the tech giant cancel a $480 million contract to build a HoloLens for the Pentagon, saying they "refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression."
"We are alarmed that Microsoft is working to provide weapons technology to the U.S. military, helping one country's government 'increase lethality' using tools we built. We did not sign up to develop weapons, and we demand a say in how our work is used," the letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith, which was posted to Twitter, states.
The employees represent the latest big tech backlash, coming from within Silicon Valley itself, as workers demand more of a say over how tech products are used and how a range of groups are treated internally.
Back in November, according to the Microsoft employees, the company awarded a major contractto the U.S. Army with the stated objective to "rapidly develop, test, and manufacture a single platform that soldiers can use to fight, rehearse, and train that provides increased lethality, mobility, and situational awareness necessary to achieve overmatch against our current and future adversaries."
The workers demand that Microsoft cancel the contract, cease developing any and all weapons technologies, draft a public-facing policy around the acceptable use of such technology, and appoint an independent, external ethics review board with the power to enforce compliance.
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GUARANTEE you they are giving our secrets to China.
“I wonder what their buddies in China think?”
You can be 100% certain that China is behind this. The employees have been well prepared to betray our country.
When did Microsoft move to Silicon Valley?
Sorry, I forgot to add sarcasm tag.
Ctrl, Alt, Delete.
Abort, retry, fail?
You forgot about Blue Screen of Death. Sounds formidable.
That’s OK, many do not know who owns and run the company
What does that big hypocrite and one world hemorrhoid Bill Gates think?
Or, the continuous... 
Fire them all.
No worries, I did look for a "sarc" tag first.
However there are plenty of PLA controlled (aka ChiCom H1-B visa workers) at Microsoft anyway.
Other than IBM, Big Tech has been dominated by Red-Diaper-Doper baby types.
Fire the idiots. They don’t need them anyway.
H1B visa holders afraid their own countries might be coming up on the list?
End H1B. Investigate every company that uses H1B for payroll and tax fraud. Prison for the offenders.
Refused. If you find yourselves unable to do the work assigned to you, pick up your check and clear out. Otherwise, shut up and get back to work.
That group of Microsoft employees is actually small; but it knows how to get press, and it no doubt has enough leftist money muscle behind it to cow disagreeing fellow employees into silence.
“we demand a say in how our work is used”
Hah, wow, OK. Good luck with that.
Your post, in a summary, says it all.
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