Many of the quotes took a different tact, called out the very fact that the company is attempting to silence its employees. The post is being reported by the Washington Post, a Jeff Bezos owned publication, as “a mass defiance of company rules that bar workers from commenting publicly on its business without corporate justification and approval from executives.”
Tech Workers Fighting Back
In February 2019, more than 100 Microsoft employees spoke out against their company’s $479 million contract with the U.S. military to “increase lethality” by providing more than 100,000 AR headsets. A year earlier, Microsoft employees had also protested a $19.4 million AI contract with ICE — the same year that over 650 Salesforce employees called for CEO Marc Benioff to rethink contracts with US Customs and Border Protection in the wake of their child separation policy.
