{"id":85213,"date":"2019-02-24T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85213"},"modified":"2019-02-24T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T18:06:10","slug":"microsoft-employees-slam-480m-hololens-military-contract-refuse-to-create-tech-for-warfare-and-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85213","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft employees slam $480M HoloLens military contract, refuse to create tech for ‘warfare and oppression’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA group of Microsoft employees is demanding that the company not produce weapons for the U.S. Army. (Microsoft)<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

“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,”<\/strong> the letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith, which was posted to Twitter, states.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before I joined the Navy I was building houses, not widgets for the military. Had I taken this attitude with the boss, the answer would have been swift and final- pick up my last paycheck, and don’t come back.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article and try to keep a straight face, here: Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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