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Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
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Do you have any evidence for this doubt or just blanket racism?
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#44These companies want to become as ubiquitous as a public utility. Therefore they should be regulated like a public utility
They're nothing like utilities and it makes no sense to treat them that way.
Instead the u.s. needs laws that protect user digital rights, and all companies should have to adhere to those laws, not just big ones.
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#46These companies want to become as ubiquitous as a public utility. Therefore they should be regulated like a public utility
There should be market share limits on providing identity and currency, or those should just be handled to the government (like they used to be).
Similarly, big vertically integrated computing platforms should be broken up (in-house applications should have exactly the same access to APIs documentation, support, etc, as third party ones).
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#47This is why I have my own domain and control the MX records on the DNS on it, so that I can reroute email to a new email provider, if needed (I pay for Fastmail). Another nice thing about having a catch-all on own domain is that you can sign up to each service with a unique email address, e.g. @ , which makes it easy to see if any services ever sold your address.
> you can sign up to each service with a unique email address, e.g. @, which makes it easy to see if any services ever sold your address.
Pro tip on this, use gibberish if you want a true canary. I know it's tempting to use microsoft@ or ms@ or msft@ etc, but companies are getting smarter about selling emails and filter those out.
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#48Some people forget that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
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#49These companies want to become as ubiquitous as a public utility. Therefore they should be regulated like a public utility
I don't think that would help in this case: being regulated as a US public utility would still embargo Gaza and treat contact with it as radioactive.
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#50If technology becomes necessary to participate in society, and if we cede control of that technology to unaccountable dystopian hypercorporations like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, then we're setting ourselves up for disaster.