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.”
Time to steal all of our data back. They stole it first.
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?
Just like the luddites.
The Luddites were right though
Algorithms really got Gen Z to stop spelling “fuck”, huh?
Is that what all that is about? People are nutters
Good.
Holy shit the amount of bot lickers in this thread is astounding.
Tear’em up! Burn’em down!
Lekker bezig
ITT a bunch of bot accounts trolling people and farming upvotes on their troll accounts.
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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…
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 critique society yet you participate in society! I am very smart
You can protest something that you’re forced to use
A banner. Yes! Based… 🙄.
Breaking into a building is not a protest, it’s a crime.
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.
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 ;)
Sorry, it wasn’t clear.
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).
