Microsoft Employees Protest Work with ICE

Post by dang » Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

PrimHelios wrote: post #328

dang wrote: post #327

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Well, for starters, "So yeah, everything you disagree with doesn't count. Thanks for wasting my time." is entirely uncivil by HN standards. So are "Grow up", "arguing with you is just a waste of time", and other things you've posted. Also, these comments are lacking in information other than that you're irritated, so they're unsubstantive in addition to uncivil. As we tell everyone, please post civilly and substantiv…

"Grow up" is uncivil but threads full of misogyny are fine Jesus fucking christ. Just fucking delete my account, you people are fucking despicable.

Post by CMay » Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 9:57 PM UTC

emodendroket wrote: post #280

CMay wrote: post #200

Who says Microsoft isn't doing more good than harm by helping ICE? ICE will do their job regardless of the tech they use and for all we know, Microsoft is helping ICE reduce mistakes which would otherwise harm the people that ICE needs to manage. People in general need to be more pragmatic, because we see a lot of emotional reactions which only make things worse.

I always find this argument unconvincing. At its most extreme expression you end up with obviously bogus propositions like "Islamic terrorism is going to happen with or without you, so you might as well join ISIS and attempt to reform them from within."