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Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal

by zhengiszen on 5/17/25, 12:08 AM with 22 comments

• by einszwei on 5/17/25, 9:56 AM

  The timing of the leak is interesting. It might point to the fact that situation on ground in Gaza is dire enough that big companies want some plausible deniability. This is just a speculation though.

• by thegrim33 on 5/17/25, 8:31 PM

  The OP account has had 72 of their last 90 submissions flagged/killed. How is a situation like this not an automatic, algorithmic, shadow-ban? Why allow someone like this to continue "contributing"?

• by giancarlostoro on 5/17/25, 4:13 PM

  Google worried it cant control how [insert name of any foreign country] could use their cloud infrastructure.

  I mean I understand the concerns but they are the same of us giving any other country cloud infrastructure tooling, which doesn't just magically happen to just any country to be fair.

  If its not Google then it will be any defense contractors and cloud provider that just wants to print dollar bills.

• by nahuel0x on 5/19/25, 8:37 PM

  "IBM and the Holocaust" == "Google and the Gaza Genocide"

• by immibis on 5/17/25, 4:28 PM

  Obvious bullshit is obvious. The project did exactly what it was intended to do.