Art Rock Legend Brian ANO has asked Microsoft to reduce its relations with the government of Israel, stating that the company’s provision of Cloud and AI services for Israel’s Ministry of Defense “supports a regime” that is described in the governments, experts of the major legal scholars and human rights organizations, and the growing numbers from all over the world, “
ENO’s relationship with Microsoft went back 30 years-he composed the famous boot-up for Windows 95, which was recently included in the National Recording Registry in the US Library of Congress.
“I happily took the project as a creative challenge and enjoyed the conversation with my contacts in the company,” ANO has written in an open letter Instagram (Through Strogam“I would never have believed that the same company can be implicated in harassment and war machinery one day.”
Eno refers to Microsoft May 15 statement “On issues related to technology services in Israel and Gaza, that company admitted to providing Israel’s Ministry of Defense with various technologies and services, but denied any conviction in the ongoing attacks of IMOD on Gaza – although it is also said that it is also said how our software uses, which actually accept. ,
Regardless, ENO is clearly not interested in opposing Microsoft’s innocence: “Selling and convenience of advanced AI and cloud services to the government engaged in systematic ethnic cleaning is ‘not a normal business’. This is a complexity. If you deliberately create those systems that can be complicated in those crimes.”
ENO called Microsoft “to suspend all services that support any operation that contributes to the violation of international law,” and he said “he” stands in solidarity with brave microsoft workers “in solidarity” who really have done some disruption and refused to remain silent. They risk their livelihood for those who are lost and will continue to lose their lives. ,
Two Microsoft employees disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary incident in early April to oppose their complications with the Israeli army; Both were fired after less than a week, but despite that similar protests took place at Microsoft’s build developer conference earlier this week. The fate of those employees is not yet known.
ENO “invited artists, technologists, musicians and all people of conscience” to join the call, and vowed that Windows 95 to create 95 startup sounds “Their fee” will go towards helping the victims of attacks on Gaza. If a sound could indicate a real change then let it be one. “
