Pro-Palestinian activists gathered Tuesday morning ahead of Google's flagship developers conference.
Pro-Palestinian activists gathered Tuesday morning ahead of Google 's flagship developers conference.AROC and Palestinian Youth Movement, the groups organizing the action, want to call attention to Google 's business contracts with the Israeli government, and the role of its technology in the war in Gaza.By 9:30 a.m., the protesters numbered between 80 and 100 people, who blocked one of the pedestrian entrances to the conference in Mountain View.
An organization that calls itself "No tech for genocide" wants to draw attention to Google's business contracts with the Israeli government, particularly a program called Project Nimbus. The project provides cloud computing services and artificial intelligence technologies to the Israeli government, and by extension, the Israeli military.
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