Students booed Sundar Pichai at graduation and walked out. Was that the right move or too far?

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So something unusual happened at Stanford’s graduation. When Google CEO Sundar Pichai came up to speak, some students booed and even walked out. The protest was about Google’s ties to government projects like Project Nimbus and concerns about how big tech is being used.

Now this raises a real question.

Was that the right place to protest, or should graduation have stayed focused on celebrating students?

On one hand, people have the right to speak up. On the other, moments like graduation don’t come twice.

What do you think?

Were the students justified, or did they cross a line?

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Replying to Abdulfaraq: "I get why they protested but graduation feels like the wrong setting for that kind of message"

Big tech is getting too much power. People are starting to push back and this is just one example

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