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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: 0.001s | source
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dark_mode ◴[25 Sep 25 17:05 UTC] No.45375569[source]▶
> The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services. The termination will raise questions within Israel about the policy of holding sensitive military data in a third-party cloud hosted overseas.

It's worth noting that even after finding out the "most moral" army is conducting mass surveillance, they're still happy to provide them services.

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boxed[dead post] ◴[25 Sep 25 19:17 UTC] No.45377571[source]▶
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andrepd ◴[25 Sep 25 19:24 UTC] No.45377692[source]▶
How so? The Patriot Act was arguably the kick-off of the state of constant mass surveillance that is ubiquitous today.
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boxed ◴[26 Sep 25 08:14 UTC] No.45384063{3}[source]▶
The problem with the Patriot Act was mass surveillance of people who didn't need to be surveilled. In this situation we are talking about a group of people with support for genocide in the double digit percentages.
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1. andrepd ◴[26 Sep 25 10:42 UTC] No.45384966{4}[source]▶
I guarantee that if my grandparents were expelled from their homes, brutalised, or killed, their homes bulldozed and annexed by the occupiers, and for the past 2 years I was the target of the most brutal genocide since Rwanda, I would probably wish worse than death to my oppressors too. But let's not get sidetracked...

PS: It's also known that for Israel and its AI killing machines, "terrorist" is defined as "male between 14 and 45". Cannot get more "mass targeted" than that.

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