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No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel (youtu.be)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Hotmailer to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, american employee protection sucks ... Where I live you could easily fight being fired for this. So maybe thats where our different stances come from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If there is a criminal charge or conviction I think you would be fired in most countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is probably why they called the cops, so they can fire them for an obvious cause and not have to deal with any questions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What would be the crime here? Am I missing something? Protesting is not (or shouldn't be) against the law, as long as you don't behave illegally)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reports seems to indicate that they were arrested for trespassing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah that, yeah they were in the CEOs office. That might be misdemeanor, but is it a felony? Pretty sure you couldn't be fired for this here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, but it seems that at least it is enough to be arrested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Could be

[–] Burn_The_Right 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the U.S., you can be fired for practically anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, probably