{"id":933697,"date":"2025-05-24T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933697"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:06:51","slug":"microsoft-software-engineer-fired-for-disrupting-ceo-satya-nadellas-speech-at-build-2025-says-cant-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/24\/microsoft-software-engineer-fired-for-disrupting-ceo-satya-nadellas-speech-at-build-2025-says-cant-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft software engineer fired for disrupting CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s speech at Build 2025, says Can&#8217;t open \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has terminated the software engineer who interrupted CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s keynote speech at the company\u2019s annual developer conference \u2013 Build 2025. Joe Lopez, the fired employee, protested against the company\u2019s partnership with the Israeli military amid the war in Gaza, shouting \u201cFree Palestine\u201d. \u201cHow about you show them how Microsoft is killing Palestinians? How about you show them how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?\u201d Lopez shouted from the audience before being confronted and dragged out of the Seattle Convention Center by security. \u201cAs a Microsoft worker, I refuse to be complicit in this genocide,\u201d he yelled.<\/p>\n<p>According to advocacy group, \u201cNo Azure for Apartheid,&#8221; Lopez received a termination letter following the protest, although he was reportedly unable to open the document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has terminated the software engineer who interrupted CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s keynote speech at the company\u2019s annual developer conference \u2013 Build 2025. Joe Lopez, the fired employee, protested against the company\u2019s partnership with the Israeli military amid the war in Gaza, shouting \u201cFree Palestine\u201d. \u201cHow about you show them how Microsoft is killing Palestinians? How about you show them how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?\u201d Lopez shouted from the audience before being confronted and dragged out of the Seattle Convention Center by security. \u201cAs a Microsoft worker, I refuse to be complicit in this genocide,\u201d he yelled. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}