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Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy

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Re: Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy

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Post by Mr_Bees69 »

bhouston wrote: post #95
shevy-java wrote: post #66

> In September 2025, Microsoft decided to unilaterally terminate the usage agreement with IDF intelligence Unit 8200 after an article published in the UK newspaper "The Guardian," which claimed that the unit was collecting information about Palestinians for the purpose of fighting terrorism Ok but ... isn't Microsoft forced, by law, to cooperate with the US government and US military? So why is that then not an ethic…

> isn't Microsoft forced, by law, to cooperate with the US government and US military? Microsoft and other cloud companies are not forced to do anything the US government or US military tells them to do. You are just making this up.

Technically the government can force some industries to do some things. (and that's just officially. The singer sewing machine company didn't need to be forced into weapons manufacturing) But, that's a wartime measure, if the government forced every steel mill in the country to produce for them, I'm not sure it'd even have to go to the supreme court.

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Post by george916a »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #37
hersko wrote: post #24

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"Wholesale population displacement, destruction of a significant percentage of civilian structures, bombings, raids, land and sea blockades," These are all things that happen during war. Explain why this war is different. All war is bad. I genuinely don't see how this is not a war but a genocide.

You cathegorize that as genocide when it is directed at a very specific group. Like jews in WWII, now it is Palestinians in their own country.

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Post by dang »

krembo wrote: post #118
readitalready wrote: post #87

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I know that a highly charged topic leads to all sorts of rushed conclusions, but you can't assume that a post not being flagged means the moderators saw it and decided to let it remain here. On the contrary, we don't see most of what gets posted to HN. There's far too much of it.

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Post by exolymph »

ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #85
bhouston wrote: post #16

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> TIL that Microsoft is the least Israel-friendly of the big three clouds This is a good thing. American companies should not be allowing their tech to be used to in the gross ongoing human rights violations in Israel/Gaza/West Bank. Google and Amazon knew their tech could be used for human rights abuses in Israel (their lawyers warned them so) but ignored that in favour of $$$ per the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deepli…

Thanks for the link, I didn't realize the EFF spent their money on such things. I honestly thought they focused on free speech/privacy/open source. I'm not trying to argue pro Israel or what not, I just wish they'd focus on their core mission.

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