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

Post by nailer » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

lupusreal wrote: post #144

vkou wrote: post #129

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Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, here, that would have the stench of colonialism about it. It's not their land to 'return to' - after all, people already live there and they have no moral right to displace them.

They have been deliberately displaced by Israeli's apartheid government giving Jewish people around the world a "right to return" to Israel. Except unlike the Palestinians, they were never from Israel in the first place so the term "right to return" as used by Israel is nothing but colonialist propaganda. Undoing colonialism isn't colonialism.

Post by skinkestek » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

komali2 wrote: post #181

skinkestek wrote: post #126

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It shouldn't be. But here we have UN and other twisting it to fit a situation that clearly weren't meant to be covered by it. Because if the war in Gaza can be called a genocide so can almost every single other major war! Also it is absolutely ridiculous to call a war that is started by one side, and one that only that side can end, a genocide against the same side that started it!

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Post by istjohn » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:11 PM UTC

rashkov wrote: post #200

rozap wrote: post #119

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[edited to remove snark] there is a ton of evidence to the contrary, that the killing of civilians is intentional and systematic. that's why the ICC (finally) determined it is a genocide.

The ICC did no such thing, you're probably thinking of the ICJ, which also did no such thing according to one of the judges that ruled on that decision: “I’m glad I have a chance to address that because the court’s test for deciding whether to impose measures uses the idea of plausibility. But the test is the plausibility of the rights that are asserted by the applicant, in this case South Africa” she told the BBC sh…

Post by t1amat » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

nashashmi wrote: post #148

sugarpimpdorsey wrote: post #139

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That's a funny way to say "they fired staff that vandalized company property, broke into the CEO's office, and used an internal company website to publish and promote anti-company propaganda". That will get you fired from bussing tables or washing dishes, let alone a six-figure job at MS. Edit: Source on the last one; the first two were widely reported on in media: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/fired-microsoft-emplo…

One protestor was fired after interrupting a CEO's speech.

Post by bhouston » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:13 PM UTC

everdrive wrote: post #254

I'm confused what this really means. Countries don't store their really secret things in Azure. So what do we think the source of this surveillance was?