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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract  The Verge Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google workers stage sit-ins to protest company’s work with Israel – The Washington Post  The Washington Post Google employees protest company’s work with Israeli government  The Hill Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel’s Government  WIRED Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘A betrayal’: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in airstrike  The Guardian Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘A betrayal’: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in airstrike  The Guardian Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google employees boo company at drag show that was nearly canceled amid religious employee protest  CNBC Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nebraska hasn’t passed a single bill this year because one lawmaker keeps filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill: ‘I will burn this session to the ground’  Yahoo News Source link

Some Google contractors that rate the quality of search results are getting as much as a 45% pay increase. Getty Images The wage increase is welcome, but workers complain they are still making less than Google’s other contractors. Thousands of Google contractors, who rate the quality of search results, have gotten hourly raises for the first time ever, after months of protesting to the tech giant about receiving “poverty wages” for their work in maintaining the company’s most iconic… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) shares are climbing higher today despite a mixed slew of news out of one of its most important markets, China. Reports over the weekend detail a number of protests at Tesla showrooms, as recent Tesla buyers complained about the automaker’s decision to cut prices on Friday. The price cut was the second decrease in the past three months, as Tesla tries to boost demand in the competitive Chinese market. Reuters reports Tesla also cut prices in Australia, Japan, and South… Source link

Comment on this story Comment HONG KONG — U.S. tech giant Google is under increasing pressure by the Hong Kong government — and, by association, China — to bury in its search results a politically sensitive pro-democracy song that has been mistaken for the national anthem. The move shows the rising tensions between multinational tech giants and Chinese authorities as Beijing seeks to hide any lingering dissent from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that began in 2019. The Hong Kong… Source link

HONG KONG, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Google has refused to change its search results to display China’s national anthem, rather than a protest song, when users search for Hong Kong’s national anthem, the city’s security chief said on Monday, expressing “great regret” at the decision. Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The row comes after Hong Kong police said they would investigate the playing of “Glory to Hong Kong” – the unofficial… Source link