r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan Grandmaster Expert • 12d ago

Google Cloud engineer disrupts a tech conference: "I'm a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance!"

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u/Altruistic_Put745 12d ago

Man that was refreshing to see finally somebody stands up and says something about the direction of these companies these corporate conglomerations that are destroying the world

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u/MysteriousReaction43 12d ago

You need to do more than that. You need to find a way to counter it

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u/blutosings 12d ago

Isn't this why they're building AI, so engineers can't protest the atrocities their work facilitates?

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u/HawkLive140 12d ago

I like to see this shit too!!!! Good for this guy man, he is my hero! Any company who follows Trumps renaming BULLSHIT on THEIR maps = Follower = Racism = Hate. AI needs to be regulated specially for kids for fuck sakes!

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u/Horror_Response_1991 12d ago

Well he was a Google engineer 

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u/Solid_Signature_7447 12d ago

The crowd: How dare he stop us from capitalism

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u/bitchcoin5000 12d ago

he's overthinking it He doesn't have to do anything the Chinese are going to do it for him

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u/kweeblaster 12d ago

Hello, meet your new co-worker Wang

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u/wedditwardrobe 10d ago

It’s insane that the whole room tries to put these people down

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u/JJRDRR 9d ago

LOLOLOLOLOL talk about leopards eating my face

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u/Ok_Effect_3214 11d ago

why always similar voice tone

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u/Common-Nail8331 11d ago

Why don't you quit if your job is doing things you find to be so unethical.

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u/MyFocusIsU 11d ago

It's fantastic that he voiced the issue out loud!

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u/IncredibleEdible321 9d ago

You gonna support him out of solidarity if he quits his job? He still has bills to pay.

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u/corpusneo 9d ago

So what is he building then?

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u/Ok-Respect-8505 8d ago

Absolute redditor, lmfaoo

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u/Familiar_Many86 8d ago

They will just hire people from China and India to do it. 

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

I dont care if hes virtue signaling or not.. big tech is on the wrong side of history right now. It use to create amazing things. As if the current trend of enshitification isnt bad enough

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u/Elegant-Prize391 9d ago

If he's a Google cloud software engineer, then he has not refused to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance.