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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians

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873 points helsinkiandrew | 3 comments | 25 Sep 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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sharpshadow ◴[25 Sep 25 16:02 UTC] No.45374509[source]▶
It would be only just if the Palestinians would get their own state after this.
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skinkestek[dead post] ◴[25 Sep 25 16:15 UTC] No.45374724[source]▶
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tdeck ◴[25 Sep 25 16:25 UTC] No.45374877[source]▶
You seem to be unaware of all the Palestinian hostages Israel has been taking for decades. Thousands of people locked up without trial or charges, many of them children. Please educate yourself.
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skinkestek ◴[25 Sep 25 16:33 UTC] No.45374996[source]▶
You don't see the difference between imprisoning people that attack you and taking care of them (mostly, exceptions sadly exist)

and storming a music festival and houses to abduct completely innocent teenagers and even toddlers to use them for leverage?

Honestly?

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1. tdeck ◴[25 Sep 25 16:43 UTC] No.45375183[source]▶
Why do you use the term "completely innocent teenagers" only for Israelis? Are Palestinians teenagers guilty because of their ethnicity? Why do you ignore the many, many documented instances of torture in Israeli prisons, and the fact that the man who runs that prison system, Itamar Ben Gvir, idolizes a mass shooter who murdered Palestinians and has been convicted for supporting terrorism?
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2. skinkestek ◴[25 Sep 25 17:23 UTC] No.45375899[source]▶
The people at the Nova festival wasn't throwing rocks at police or military when they were abducted. Neither were they trying to smuggle bombs, slash throats, stab elderly or any of the other things Palestinian Arabs get locked up for.

That is what I meant by completely innocent.

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Also, any reason why you mention Ben Gvir but not the many Palestinian Arab leaders who says worse?

Any reason you don't mention the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who fill the street to protest its current government and the absolute lack of anyone who protests Hamas in the streets of Gaza?

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3. tdeck ◴[26 Sep 25 14:38 UTC] No.45387011[source]▶
You just ignored the fact that the people Israel rounds up haven't been charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Israel rounded up 1500 people this month simply because they were Palestinian and live in a particular village.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/12/headlines/israeli_for...

I guess to someone with your ideology collective punishment of Palestinians is normal day, but when the world sees it we are repulsed.