cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/76163261
Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”
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Very misleading title as the protest is against the building of the data center. They broke into a construction site, not an actual data center. Some could read the article before commenting, maybe?
Time to steal all of our data back. They stole it first.
Just like the luddites.
The Luddites were right though
Holy shit the amount of bot lickers in this thread is astounding.
Tear’em up! Burn’em down!
I’m not unsympathetic to their cause, but I do expect that each and every one of these protesters then also boycotts all of Microsoft’s products; otherwise it would be hypocritical. In the end, that, if done en masse, will hit them harder than some banners…
you critique society yet you participate in society! I am very smart
I demand perfection, pluck out your eyes
If people routinely break into construction sites, it puts their insurance, security, etc costs up significantly. In the UK factory’s that made parts for drones ended up shutting down over rising insurance costs.
You can protest something that you’re forced to use
Breaking into a building is not a protest, it’s a crime.
True. It’s not what happened though.
They broke into a construction site, which is private property. Are you suggesting private property can be entered by anyone?
Nope. Also not what you said.
I said building. It was a construction site. Same argument.
And if you read my comment, I agreed with the concept ;)
as if those are mutually exclusive
When I read protest my mind doesn’t go to ‘break and enter’.
demonstrations with signs and chants in the street are the simplest form of protest and ideally would be the only one necessary. if they’re not backed-up by the threat of more disruptive and direct action, they’re toothless and ineffective. protesting is the whole thing, and since the power systems don’t usually give a shit to the first and kinder stages of protesting, it becomes necessary to venture into the realm of “cRiMe”
the definition of crime is arbitrary and subject to change and not really relevant to the definition of protest
What a load of dribble.
Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”
rrrriiiight. So 100% politically motivated.
Any reason why these protests shouldn’t be completely ignored by normal people?
edit I take that as a no
Normal people oppose genocide.
Of course. Normal people can also correctly identify genocide.
There’s still people like you? Wow!
This is an 80/20 issue now, normal people hate Israel.
This is an 80/20 issue now, normal people hate Israel.
Yeah, I’ve noticed, at least in here. That doesn’t mean they’re right in everything they say. It just means that Hamas won the PR war.
Hating Israel is not antisemitic in itself, but still the history of antisemitic hatred is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism
Netanjahu fucking off and perhaps rotting in prison (if it could happen) would not be a bad thing though and I would fully support that.
What else would you desire motivate a protest? Oh no, please don’t protest genocide! The humanity!
you tit
Algorithms really got Gen Z to stop spelling “fuck”, huh?
Is that what all that is about? People are nutters
ITT a bunch of bot accounts trolling people and farming upvotes on their troll accounts.
Good.
Breaking in isn’t protesting.
Protest is intentionally inconvenient. Thats the point.
three year old account and only 8 comments…
the datacenter just opened it doors? gust of wind.
It can be. They clearly protested.
protest breaking your nuts but don’t protest breaking the artificial billionaire bubble , you will lose your jobs and be happy to own nothing, Keep paying taxes while I cut services and take your jobs, no health care for you but have a nice data center , don’t forget a bucket.
Luddites never change.
Luddites opposed child labour.
And Hitler was opposed to animal cruelty, but we’re not gonna say that was a key part of his politics, are we?
Except opposing child labour was the key part of their politics and it’s what you were referencing.
As long as you believe it.
2-year-old account and this is your very first comment?
these websites need up/downvotes for users (not just comments) to identify shills like this
Yeah, I registered my account a very long time ago and haven’t used this site. Is that a problem for you? Do I really need to explain this?
Sorry for not spending my life on this.
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Ludd for president! He’s got my vote! I’m voting Ludd!
That’s exactly why it would be a good idea to introduce an intellectual qualification for voters.
That’s not the best way to do it.
Let them build > Nationalize the shit
LLMs are a waste of money. Don’t waste tacoayer dollars
AI datacenters are not like the regular datacenters this message went through to reach you.
There wouldn’t be much point in nationalizing it unless if it was to sell the parts and rent the place as a warehouse (or convert it to affordable housing).
