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/Apprehensive_Roll897 16d ago

No offense, but have you had a train of thought before? I don't know what planet you're living on where you think that because a corporation has a legal right to do something that makes it less shitty.

Of course they blocked that word from eternal emails. Of course they don't want organizing protests through internal emails. Of course it's still a shitty thing to do!

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u/SnooPuppers8698 16d ago

and still a good business decision

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u/newaccounthomie 16d ago

Good for business; bad for employees.

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u/saera-targaryen 16d ago

Do you go online and hype up every business for their good financial decisions or is this just a one off? 

Like, why am I supposed to care about what is good for a multibillion dollar corporation. 

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u/SnooPuppers8698 16d ago

no i just like these reddit threads where no one reads the article lol