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Microsoft blocks emails that contain 'Palestine' after employee protests
- pbiggar 1y agoMicrosoft is having a really bad time of it recently. Each of the 3 days of their Build conference was disrupted by protests of their involvement in the genocide. They got Satya's keynote: https://x.com/NoAz4Apartheid/status/1924512658587263410 https://x.com/NoAz4Apartheid/status/1924512658587263410 In the last one, during a security presentation, the presenter accidentally leaked private information as a result: https://www.theverge.com/news/671373/microsoft-ai-security-chief-walmart-conversation-build-protest-disruption https://www.theverge.com/news/671373/microsoft-ai-security-c...
- timmg 1y agoAm I just too old school? Like I don't think it makes sense to do these protests at work. I get there are cases where your employer is doing something immoral. But maybe just switch jobs if you are that upset about it?
- owebmaster 1y agoWhy not protest and switch jobs? One is not old school by been submissive, I'm old school and I'm not like that.
- pbiggar 1y agoI would argue that if your employer is helping a genocide, it's everyone's responsibility to fight it.
- Aeolun 1y agoSure, but do you help fight it by spamming the entire company with a bunch of mail?
- pbiggar 1y agoSurely you fight it by any means necessary? It's a genocide! Microsoft's tools and servers and people were involved in killing way over 60,000 people (and plausibly 300,000). I don't know how anyone could sit idly by in that situation.
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- drweevil 1y agoI'm frankly a bit shocked by the equivalence here: genocide not worth spamming. Please tell me this was sarcasm.
- mrguyorama 1y agoActually creating spam and noise in an organization is one of the classic ways to sabotage and hurt it, as described in the CIA's simple sabotage field manual.
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- eesmith 1y agoI don't think you know what "old school" means. Old school Polaroid employees back in the 1970s started the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers’ Movement to successfully pressure Kodak to stop their secret support for apartheid South Africa. Labor strikes are also an old school alternative to "just switch jobs."
- croes 1y agoBut if you want to change something, how does it help to switch the job?
- suraci 1y ago> But maybe just switch jobs if you are that upset about it? That's the gentler way to strike. As members of the working class, we technically have the freedom to choose which employer we sell our labor to - but we are forced to sell our labor an employer to survive So, in reality, it's hard It's like saying, "But maybe just don’t get sick if you can’t afford medical treatment"
- stby 1y agoInternally. I feel like this word does belong into the headline. Other than that, I will never understand how employees don't move all of their communication far outside of their employers infrastructure in cases like that.
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- jsnell 1y agoIt's not about the dozens of activists talking with each other but about them writing to tens of thousands of people within the company. The former you can do on any platform. The latter you can only do on the employer's platform: that's where the people who're apathetic to your cause are, and they're not about to join your Discord.
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- jedimind 1y agoI didn't call you a nazi, but gave an adequate historic example of the "good apathetic worker" who just does his/her "job" without being aware or caring about the consequences of that work. I'm not responsible for your poor reading comprehension skills.
- jsnell 1y agoYou quoted what I wrote and fake-attributed my words to someone manufacturing Zyklon-B. That is not setting up a historical analogy, but a direct insult. The only correct response from you is an apology, not insults about my reading comprehension.
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- techdmn 1y agoShould I be surprised that a story about a tech company censoring workers communications (emails sent inside and outside) was flagged? Maybe this post was flagged due to the nature of the communications. Maybe Microsoft isn't the only censor.
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- tastyface 1y agoActually, the elected government is responding with full-on ethnic cleansing: https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-implementation-of-trumps-gaza-relocation-plan-is-condition-for-ending-war/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-implementation-of-tr...
- jjaksic 1y agoNetanyahu is most definitely no angel and he's in large part responsible for the current situation including Oct 7 by propping up Hamas for his own political gain. However, what it happening in Gaza is not ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is systematic killing of civilians based on ethnicity. This has happened multiple times in history, but it's not what's happening here. There are way too many innocent casualties, yes, but nobody is systematically killing Palestinians. I don't know what this "relocation" plan is; forced relocation is of course bad, but it's much better than systematic killing (which is what ethnic cleansing is), and it's also arguably much better than civilians being stuck in a war zone. Truth of the matter is that it's very challenging to fight an army of 40k terrorists who are intentionally mixed with civilians in order to maximize civilian casualties. How would you deal with a terrorist organization like that? I don't think anybody has a good answer.
- runarberg 1y agoFrom Wikipedia: > Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous The term makes no distinction on how the cleansing is achieved, be it forced relocation or genocide, both meet the definition equally.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> And more importantly, if you want peace in Gaza, protest against Hamas for terrorism and hostage taking The Israeli policy of genocide against the Palestinian population is not restricted to Gaza and is older than Hamas. Hamas is, in fact, a direct and deliberate consequence of that policy, its antecedent Islamist networks having been actively fostered in Gaza by Israel during the occupation to create a separate, conflicting, and less internationally-sympathetic (particular to both the West and neighboring Arab regimes) center of Palestinian resistance from the more secular Arab-nationalist groups dominating the PLO, in order to both make local resistance less effective and reduce international diplomatic resistance to Israel’s displacement and eradication of the Palestinian population.
- TheNewsIsHere 1y agoMicrosoft claims that internal and external reviews don’t hold that their services are being used by Israel to further genocide. I’m sure I.G. Farben could have ginned up a press release to say “Oh that final solution stuff? We have no involvement.” Microsoft is squarely on the wrong side of history here. The world is watching you, Satya Nadella.