Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella

Re:Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Mic... by saagarjha on Sunday November 30, 2025 @09:26AM (#46096895)

> Unless Microsoft is directly supplying the software which surveils instead of just “general purpose compute” this isn’t as big as Norway would want you to believe. They can just terminate the accounts as violations of terms of service

They did: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/25/update-...

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Re:Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Mic... by Cpoll on Sunday November 30, 2025 @09:59AM (#46097166)

Doesn't the article you linked contradict that? It sounds like they're claiming they only provided general purpose blob storage.

> First, we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians. We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have insisted on it repeatedly for more than two decades. This is why we explained publicly on August 15 that Microsoft’s standard terms of service prohibit the use of our technology for mass surveillance of civilians.

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Re:Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Mic... by jakupovic on Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:53AM (#46098262)

So helping with blob storage or not helping at all? Can't be in dual state.

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