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Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For people, usually with empathy, it's dumb, for others this may be a call for business. And there isn't a shortage of people supporting the genocide. US literally had 2 genocide enablers for last president election. Rich people in US never shy away from the most unethical shit to make more money.

What do you think the military industrial complex has been doing since WWII?

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