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Google tells staff not to 'debate politics' after firing workers who protested Israel contract
Google “is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe," CEO Sundar Pichai said
But in a final section of the memo subtitled “Mission first,” Pichai said that Google parent Alphabet “is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform.” Earlier Thursday, Google’s head of security Chris Rackow sent an internal memo saying that the employees who protested the company’s contract with the Israeli government and military “took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers.” The group behind the protests, No Tech for Apartheid, has called for Alphabet to pull out of Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract it shares with Amazon to provide cloud computing technology.
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