Rabat – A loud online choir of voices asks LinkedIn to restore the report by Ibtishal Aboutad, a Moroccan engineer at Microsoft, whose platform was selected after their public protest against the participation of the company in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.
The petition, launched Under the hashtag #reinstatibtishal, the day on social media is obtained, since the users denounce the violation of Aboussad’s right to speak out against the terrible humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
Followers argue that the ban on their report for peaceful protests is a dangerous precedent for the silence of dissent.
Aboussad’s protest became viral last week when she interrupted a keynote speech by Microsoft, Mustafa Sulyman, during the celebrations for the company’s 50th anniversary in Redmond, Washington, Washington. The Harvard graduate went to Microsoft Copilot during a presentation and directly onto the stage confronted The company about its accomplice in GazaTrich crimes.
“Mustafa, shame over you,” she explained and spoke to Sulyman. “You claim that you want to use Ai for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military. Fifty thousand people have died and Microsoft drives this genocide in our region.”
Her protest came shortly after an investigation by Associated Press that the tools of Microsoft and Openai were used in IOF programs to select bomb goals in Gaza and Lebanon. One of the incidents cited concerned a 2023 air raid in Lebanon, in which three children and their grandmother were killed.
Aboussad later told the media that their fear of being silent in view of such violence outweighed concerns about their job security. “The fear of contributing to the genocide is much greater,” she said.
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“In the past year and a half, our Arab, Palestinian and Muslim community in Microsoft has been silent, shaken, harassed and permanently. At best to speak on deaf ears, led to the employees of two employees.
“We see a genocide … we are complicit,” she added and noticed that atrocity the situation.
The public reaction to their statement was quick and many were touched by their courage. Across platforms, users have praised ABOUSDS actions and condemned what they consider as Linkedin’s retribution measures for retaliation. The suspension of your report has only strengthened the role of the role of technology industry in the ongoing genocide in the Gaza and the reaction to internal disagreements.
The online petition demands that LinkedIn immediately restore the ABOUSAD account and enables it to continue to deal with her professional network and your advocacy community.
“Your voice is important,” says the petition. “You are silent for the supporters of human rights is a dangerous precedent.”
Since the hashtag #reinstatibtishal continues to circulate online, it is unlikely that the claims for an accountability of Tech giants and social platforms will soon rest.
