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Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms “Palestine” or “Gaza” are getting temporarily blocked from being sent to recipients inside and outside the company. 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.
“Words like ‘Israel’ or ‘P4lestine’ do not trigger such a block,” say NOAA organizers. “NOAA believes this is an attempt by Microsoft to silence worker free speech and is a censorship enacted by Microsoft leadership to discriminate against Palestinian workers and their allies.”
Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes to reduce “politically focused emails” inside the company.
“Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. We have an established forum for employees who have opted in to political issues,” says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw in a statement to The Verge. "Over the past couple of days, a number of politically focused emails have been sent to tens of thousands of e …
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what has gaza to do in the workplace emails? nothing. same with israel.
you work and then go home where you can write what you want to who you want.
what has gaza to do in the workplace emails? nothing. same with israel.
Everything when the company you work for is implicit in genocide of Palestinian people.
you work and then go home where you can write what you want to who you want.
Yeah, some people do who give no care about the company they work for is complicit in genocide. However, some humans still have humanity within them. They do care. They’ll protest.
i hate microshaft, but come on now. i sincerely dont know how they are implicit. please explain.
i hate microshaft, but come on now. i sincerely dont know how they are implicit. please explain.
I will provide three articles, the rest is up to you to do research. Because you know, when you write here the way you do, you should know these things already.
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Microsoft employee slams leadership at company event over complicity in Israeli ‘genocide’
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Microsoft finally acknowledges supplying AI services to Israel but denies Gaza genocide complicity
I will not respond to any of your comments because you have proven that, you have not done any research.
