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Not surprising from the company that had a rampant culture of sexual abuse and harassment, drunken "cube crawls", a "cosby suite" at their annual convention, protected sexual abusers for years and hired a former Bush administration torture apologist lawyer to defend them in a PR and legal campaign that ultimately led to them beating any legal consequences on technicalities.

Waze is owned by Google but was founded by people linked to the infamous isn'treali intelligence unit 8200 and is still developed in occupied Palestine by settlers.

Google as has been previously reported is on its own deeply in bed with the zionist intelligence and repression apparatus and its occupation military.

In this case they're licensed one of their key characters from their World of Warcraft franchise as a voice assistant in the navigation app as we near the 1-year-anniversary of the completely legal action by the resistance on Oct 7th to use violence to resist. As well as the 1 year anniversary of the start of a genocide against the Palestinian people and outsized aggression against sovereign states in violation of international law and acts against civilians outside of Palestine which violate international law.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/new-waze-world-of-warcraft-voice-pack-let-thrall-guide-your-path-to-work-347160

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[-] ksdhf@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Let' not forget that Blizzard was aquired by activision and is full of ex security state & ex military in their leadership.

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Agreed, it's good that people are talking about this and hopefully (even if it won't mean much) it hurts their bottom line, but it'd be more surprising if something like this wasn't the case IMO. Blizzard has a history of being ghouls, Activision is made up of even worse ghouls (the worst kinds of bootlickers in the business, probably), and then they were acquired by Microsoft to make it worse.

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