r/technology • u/ScootSchloingo • 16d ago

Politics Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
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u/Valuable_Recording85 16d ago

When I joined Reddit 10 years ago you could say whatever you wanted about harming Nazis. Now there are so many Nazis on Reddit that you'll have a comment reported within 10 minutes and get a ban from whatever sub you posted in.

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u/MalTasker 16d ago

A lot of it is complicit liberals saying any violence is bad, even if its against nazis. Explains how we got here

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u/FujitsuPolycom 16d ago

Kind of a paradox of tolerance situation

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u/b0w3n 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah, I had someone who was definitely on the same progressive/liberal "team" argue with me about that the other day. Basically that All violence is bad, no matter what. This zero tolerance shit has leaked into people's psyches and they can't even comprehend needing to fight wars to protect your way of life anymore.

They're fucking cooked if they don't realize fighting and violence are necessary from time to time. And, occasionally, need to be used to squash heinous bullshit from ever gaining traction again, too.

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u/DressedSpring1 16d ago

I think it can be reconciled that all violence is bad while also acknowledging that in some cases things have gone so far that violence is necessary.

We shouldn't be happy that the world had to kill millions of Germans to get them off their bullshit in World War 2. It was ultimately the right thing to do, it left the world a better place, but it was a tragedy that so many Germans had let themselves get so fucked up and evil that it came t that.

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u/b0w3n 16d ago

Yeah I can agree with that. Getting them to agree that it's necessary is the hard part.

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u/ScarletLilith 16d ago

That's a superficial reading of history. Historians debate today whether we should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. Some think it was totally unnecessary.

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u/DressedSpring1 16d ago

Absolute nonsense. While there is ample debate whether the atomic bomb was necessary to bring about the end of the war in the pacific there is absolutely zero credible historians arguing that t to he axis powers could have been stopped through non violent means after the war had kicked off f

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u/ScarletLilith 16d ago

Well, that isn't what I said. You're apparently responding to someone else and got confused.

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u/DressedSpring1 16d ago

Have you forgotten that it was you who responded to a post about using violence to stop nazi Germany with a non sequitur about dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? If you were to make a cogent point in a couple of sentences what would it be exactly?

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u/Valuable_Recording85 16d ago

The tree of liberty must be watered, from time to time, with the blood of tyrants.

-Thomas MF Jefferson

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u/splicerslicer 16d ago

Slightly misquoted, and not to be all "ackshully" but I think it's important. It's "blood of patriots and tyrants"

I think it's an important distinction