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Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 years, announced his resignation Thursday in a mass email sent to thousands of colleagues, protesting the company's continued cloud services contracts with the Israeli military.

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Microsoft employee suddenly grows moral compass and quits Microsoft--not for any specific reason to quit Microsoft which are legion--but over Israel.

There, fixed it for you.

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He has no moral compass. He just hates Israel.

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That IS his moral compass!

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From Google’s Project Maven protests in 2018 to Amazon and Palantir facing internal dissent over surveillance contracts there is a pattern emerging where highly skilled employees see their work as inseparable from its downstream effects. In Glowski’s words we hear not just a protest against one contract but a larger demand that technology firms actively account for the human impact of their platforms...