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

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873 points helsinkiandrew | 1 comments | 25 Sep 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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politelemon ◴[25 Sep 25 16:11 UTC] No.45374648[source]▶
I am seeing several kneejerk "Microsoft bad" reactions here, which HNers don't do for many other companies. I encourage many of you to read what is written.

They listened to their internal staff and stakeholders and public pressure, and did terminated the contract instead of ignoring it or doubling down.

That is a good thing.

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BrenBarn ◴[25 Sep 25 18:22 UTC] No.45376783[source]▶
The problem is that if you're very very bad, you can do a good thing and still be very bad.
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hashim ◴[25 Sep 25 18:24 UTC] No.45376811[source]▶
What other reasons are Microsoft very very bad? Genuinely curious about what your definition of "very, very bad" is and whether it aligns with mine.
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1. worik ◴[25 Sep 25 19:44 UTC] No.45377973{3}[source]▶
> What other reasons are Microsoft very very bad

Their laziness, greed and business acumen have left us in the position that the world's dominant personal OS is insecure, unreliable and running a protection racket with virus detection (and virus writers)

This is an ongoing rolling clusterfuck, and is entirely due to MS