Month old news.
Some previous discussions:
Microsoft blocked the email account of Chief Prosecutor of the ICC
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039719
Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost
Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
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Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
#112Israel can do no wrong apparently
Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
#113>> Casper Klynge, a former Danish and European Union diplomat who worked for Microsoft, said the episode was in many ways the “smoking gun that many Europeans had been looking for.” Damn right. Strong evidence that Europe should look after their own, and not rely on the good old US of A. Written by an Australian who thinks we should do the same down here.
The US continues to burn its soft power capital to defend Israel - this guy was only targeted because of his investigations on Israeli war crimes.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the non-fascist actual valid complaints about the ICC?
The ICCs (and a bunch of other organizations') bias against Israel is pretty obvious no matter which side of the political aisle one stands on.
> bias against [thing]
This isn’t strictly a problem if the thing is actually disagreeable. For example, most people have a bias against criminality. Whether there is a bias is unrelated to how agreeable the bias is. Any opinion is “a bias”.
What’s more relevant is how well their stated positions match their actions. Is there another country doing the things that Israel is doing (or that has done them) but was never prosecuted by the ICC? That seems like it would be indicative of a “bias against Israel”.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great, but look at this. This is a joke. Let's see ... the EU funded Microsoft to the tune of 234.26 billion USD per year, and have been funding it for 50 years (starting at 0 of course). How much software does the EU expect to get for "between 5000 and 50000 euro"? (one-time). A software engineer in Bangalore can expect to make more than that, even after tax! The EU got INCREDIBLY lucky after Microsoft's rise. Linux…
A $200B grant would be globally unprecedented. The LHC only cost $5B. European countries are market economies, moving more in that direction, and would like a local competitor.
Just think if any EU business didn't have to pay the Microsoft tax or the open source TCO tax/labor, because there is a non-profit full-stack solution running at cost. Make any business out of the EU pay retail rates to subsidize development. It would be a huge competitive advantage. Just like payments have become so much easier in the EU over the past decade.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds...appropriate? I would have no issues with every living former US President being accountable for their crimes, and I expect they would all be convicted.
It’s not appropriate for an international court that we’re not even a part of to put our Presidents and their subordinates on trial, nor is it something we should meekly concede to.
Was Germany a part of any such treaty? Or was it inappropriate for those Nazis to be held accountable for their crimes?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re working on it! And they’re making it open source :) Our goal is to offer a privacy-focused, vendor-neutral alternative to platforms like Microsoft Exchange. https://stalw.art/blog/nlnet-grant-collaboration/
Great, but look at this. This is a joke. Let's see ... the EU funded Microsoft to the tune of 234.26 billion USD per year, and have been funding it for 50 years (starting at 0 of course). How much software does the EU expect to get for "between 5000 and 50000 euro"? (one-time). A software engineer in Bangalore can expect to make more than that, even after tax! The EU got INCREDIBLY lucky after Microsoft's rise. Linux…
You make some very good arguments, but
EU funded Microsoft to the tune of 234.26 billion USD per year
???
Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds...appropriate? I would have no issues with every living former US President being accountable for their crimes, and I expect they would all be convicted.
It’s not appropriate for an international court that we’re not even a part of to put our Presidents and their subordinates on trial, nor is it something we should meekly concede to.
Why not? Someone has to do it.
Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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If the US is in the wrong, why should I as a citizen not want our government officials held accountable?
"In the wrong" is often jurisdiction specific. I do not want otherwise reasonable candidates to avoid the ballot because of the risk of being convicted by some external court.
Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
#120Perhaps Europe should try building their own tech industry so they have fewer problems like this.