Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

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1. “Protests don’t work.” “As an employee, you should never question the morality of your employer.” “Shut up, and do your work.” Did I miss anything else?

2. The executive told Israel officials that Microsoft “is not in the business of facilitating the mass surveillance of civilians” and notified them that it would “disable” access to services that supported the Unit 8200 surveillance project and suspend its use of some AI products.

   The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services. The termination will raise questions within Israel about the policy of holding sensitive military data in a third-party cloud hosted overseas.

   Call me a pessimist but this seems like a PR move. A single unit will have to move from Azure to AWS.

3. You can’t wash your hands off genocide just like that, they have every possible help they could to the genocidal entity. We remember when Microsoft even blocked the email account of International Court of Justice prosecutor for prosecuting Israeli war crimes. Microsoft can go fuck itself!

4. ok cool microsoft that is a good job.

   except you’re still monitoring everyone else on the planet so if you could just extend that policy to yourself and remove all the spyware bloat that you shoved into windows 10 and windows 11. that would be awesome.

   when can I except the update that removes all the tracking software that nobody wants?
   never? cool. you are the devil.

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