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Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content

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at this point, what should be the "way going forward?" you have american companies and universities and businesses all lining up to defending israeli position, you have american lawmakers sanctioning ICC for passing a judgement against israeli president on and on.

so god forbid anyone says "from the river to the sea" and that is automatically anti-semetic?

More like they don't want to deal with drama when they have a whole lot of other headaches on their plate. Winds can change overnight. Like Churchill hitting peak support and popularity in 1945 but then he goes and looses the elections after the war. Why? Cause the support during the war was for one thing and the elections were about another.

i get that but more and more nations are rallying 'against' israel, spain for one joining south africa. these are nation states going to literal war for all the "drama" which apparently is death of like 3% of a population living in an open prison.

sure everyone wants to avoid "drama" but why doesn't that drama match with say ukraine war? we have whole tech companies supporting ukraine, rejecting russians, "we support ukraine" pins and banners all across the interwebs so its not like

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/02/metas-ongoing-efforts-rega...

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/metas-efforts-regarding-is...

read these two posts from meta.

in ukraine post, they are talking about mental health issues, "showing solidarity on Facebook: ", and "fundraising efforts" and "Increasing Our Support for Humanitarian Efforts:"

while in the second post, it is all about preventing hamas content or more appropriately, content that facebook deems "harmful" against israeli interests.

no solidarity with dead gazans or no humanitarian efforts, no fundraising

It reveals what the priorities are - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/11/israel-as-a-landed-aircra...

Few years back they were furiously crying about afghan girls. We can see how many care about those girls today. Its cause their priorities changed.

As many on this community have stated: Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

It really depends on the consequences to the point where that statement is essentially meaningless, but I do not see how this is a freedom of speech issue anyway.

His lawsuit claims that he was fired "for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian instagram posts".

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