Microsoft fires Joe Lopez for disrupting Genocide-profiteer Satya Nadella during Microsoft Build Keynote speech and bans words like “Palestine”, “Gaza” and “Genocide” in all company emails!!! Yet another chapter in a long tale of Microsoft’s intimidation, retaliation, repression, and censorship culture. Source.

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    1 month ago

    Sigh. The “source” is an Instagram post with the same graphic.

    I would love, you know, an actual article. I’m all for independent journalists, and a snappy image is a fine way to draw people in, but that needs to lead to the article. End point at a few words of text saved as a jpeg don’t do it for me.

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      1 month ago

      What do you mean? You don’t see SM posts from random people and just accept as gospel?

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        1 month ago

        They are basing their article on this Instagram source, with the rest of the article is just them yapping and asking Microsoft for a comment.

        The No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA) protest group reports that “dozens of Microsoft workers” have been unable to send emails with the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “Genocide” in email subject lines or in the body of a message.

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          Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes to reduce “politically focused emails” inside the company

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          They are basing their article on this Instagram source,

          I mean, the Instagram source is the primary source; it’s a post by NOAA speaking out against these things, and The Verge and other outlets are writing their articles based on that primary source.