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For me the mass killing of children is completely unacceptable and there's absolutely no excuses, zero. And Microsoft's participation in that is a real shock for me.
These 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.
Case in point: gaza's area code isn't banned by us pots operators.
This 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 even put @ . Let’s note however that even "owning a domain" is an illusion of control, as IANA is ultimately a retainer of uncle Sam. I don’t know if there is any functional distributed alternative that promote more autonomy to end users that can works out of the box (or even just a few basic install steps away) in most digital terminal out there.
Some people forget that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
What are you trying to hide, you seditious terrorist, hmm?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Digital Markets Act and/or Digital Services Act ought to have something to say about this, especially the "this secret decision is final and we refuse to say anything else" part of the story.
That wording sounds like the decision was made in Israel and not the US. I would guess the shutdown requests came from Israeli security services. Thus it is final and not appealable and can also the reasoning can not be revealed.
Some people forget that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
This 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.
Some people forget that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
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