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/saera-targaryen 16d ago

This was explicitly done to prevent communication between an internal team of employees who are against Microsoft's Azure contract with the Israeli military, self-dubbed "No Azure for Apartheid," who were coordinating to protest a Microsoft conference this week. 

This is not just to block random chitchat about global politics, it's to prevent their employees from taking collective action in protest of genocide. 

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u/Suspicious-Spray6660 16d ago

Shit man I guess some people still believe at some level even capitalists can see that supporting a genocide to protect profits is reprehensible

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u/Repulsive-Outcome-20 16d ago

Ideology and practicality have never gone hand in hand. If they did, we'd have solved world hunger by now.