A large group of what appeared to be over a hundred Stanford University students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Sunday, June 14, in protest during Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech.
Some people could be seen waving large Palestinian flags as they chanted “Free, free Palestine,” while booing could be heard from the crowd.
One student held a sign reading “ICE Spies With Google AI.” Another sign read “The People Have the Power.”
Vinod Khosla, founder of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, was highly critical of the walkout.
“The stupidity of these Stanford students to take the greatest opportunity for equality in humanity ever and to really free humanity and go walk out on Google and Sundar Pichai that’s pioneered that. Biased, idiotic, short-sighted and very selfish,” he wrote on X. “Selfish because they ignored the bottom 3 billion people on this planet vs. the few million Palestinians who I also support. Get real!”…