Hundreds of students walked out during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s commencement address at Stanford University, protesting the company’s government contracts and ethical concerns around its work with controversial agencies.
The demonstration was directed at Google, with students criticising its involvement in contracts linked to military and government bodies, including ties to Israeli military cloud services through Project Nimbus and the US immigration enforcement agency ICE.
As Pichai began speaking, groups of graduates left the stadium, waved banners and joined organised protest activity outside the ceremony.
Some students later attended an alternative gathering where speakers highlighted opposition to Big Tech involvement in state surveillance and military technology.
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