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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by deegles on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:21AM (#17352555)
> “Our current engagement with ICE is focused on moving legacy infrastructure such as mail, calendar, messaging and document management to the cloud using Azure.”

I don’t understand why this makes it any better. I’m sure there’s a lot of “messaging and document management” needed to run those detainment centers. And besides, what’s going to happen in the future when they do ask to use Cognitive Services in their mission? “Sorry, you only get O365?”

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by jadedhacker on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:21AM (#17353014)
Child concentration camps run a lot smoother on Office 365, now on Azure!

EDIT: Anyone that collaborates with ICE from this point forward is complicit. In a just world, collaborators, ICE officers, and high officials would be tried in the International Criminal Court. Following orders or making money was not an acceptable defensible at Nuremberg, nor will it be in the coming future when the US loses enough international standing.

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by Ntrails on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:45AM (#17353598)
Why on earth would you want to prosecute the supermarket where ICE buys loo roll? The builders merchant who sold them fence posts?

I mean, the hyperbole is real here - because there's zero chance the international courts prosecute any US citizen - but if they did it's not going to be the people who sold them spreadsheet software.

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by eesmith on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:10AM (#17354237)
Perhaps for the same reason the US extended its trade embargo with Cuba to include foreign companies trading with Cuba - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms%E2%80%93Burton_Act

Or for the reasons that people have divested from companies doing business with South Africa under apartheid, or the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement regarding Israel, or any of a number of other examples.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action .

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by mschuster91 on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:07AM (#17353679)
> Why on earth would you want to prosecute the supermarket where ICE buys loo roll? The builders merchant who sold them fence posts?

In mafiya/organized crime, (serial) murder cases it's common to prosecute knowing supporters as "aiding in criminal activities". The supermarket cashier selling loo rolls to the ICE may not be a "knowing supporter", but the fence post seller certainly is.

As for the people involved: there won't be justice, not as long as the US has nukes and refuses any international control.

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by patrickg_zill on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:35PM (#17356924)
This is an utterly ridiculous statement. ICE buys their envelopes from Office Depot (example), they buy cell phones from ATT (example) - is Office Depot supposed to physically stop ICE agents from entering their stores and paying for office supplies? Is ATT supposed to refund ICE their money and immediately cancel all their phone service.

The rhetoric is really getting ahead of the reality here...

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by netsharc on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:48AM (#17353385)
Smells like IBM supplying tabulating machines to the Nazi government...
Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by jgaa on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:29AM (#17354335)
> Child concentration camps run a lot smoother on Office 365, now on Azure!

They should add crying children as a ring-tone in Skype!

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by setquk on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:48AM (#17353131)
This sounds like the standard Microsoft marketoids. When asked about privacy and telemetry or anything critical the answer is always for a question that wasn’t asked followed by some template brand reinforcement followed by a metric ton of blog posts about improving insignificant things that aren’t related.

No one at MSFT will answer a question straight ever.