This is a technology forum. If the article is relevant here at all, it’s because of Microsoft. A better argument could probably be made that the article shouldn’t be here.
It is relevant because Microsoft is shutting down people their accounts for prosecuting war crimes. This should be a wakeup call for people to stop using services by the Fascist American government.
And here I am having to oversee our organisation moving to Windows 11. I would happily not do that but I cannot imagine trying to administer a network of Linux computed.
I don’t think there is one I think the only way to do that would be to wander around with a bunch of .iso files and install what is needed where. At that point I think I’d rather just deal with Microsoft.
The title is still misleading and should have been worded better. Also company complying with sanctions is not news. The only reason it’d be newsworthy is if Microsoft locked his account independently.
No, the fact that MS can and will be forced to shut down accounts of people Trump dislikes is newsworthy in itself, and warning for everybody to avoid entrusting US companies with your data or money. If they can do it to this guy, they can do it to anyone.
Are you intentionally trying to miss the point? Don’t you think it matters what the law is? Harmful laws are absolutely newsworthy. Your data not being safe in the biggest data platforms in the world is absolutely newsworthy. I don’t understand how you can be so apathetic about that.
That’s not new though. Since 2020 the Biden government was forcing multiple social media sites to censor accounts and posts and to force through an agenda, and the people who are complaining over this were likely the ones who had no issue with that - because it was their “side” doing the censoring. Those of us who did call it out WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING were called conspiracy theorists, told we were spreading “misinformation”, and so on. You didn’t care then, why now?
Your data not being safe in the biggest data platforms in the world is absolutely newsworthy.
What do you mean by “data not being safe”? Losing access to your email? Any “data” that you have in a third party service isn’t “safe”, this isn’t new and it isn’t news.
I don’t understand how you can be so apathetic about that.
Because it’s been this way since the start of the internet and it’s not going to change. Companies can ban people. Governments can force companies to ban people. Governments keep passing new laws to enable them to control speech and the narrative online because they know that the mainstream media that they control is going the way of the dodo. Those of us who have been fighting against it for well over a decade at this point are over it because the people crying about it now were the same people calling for it for the last 4 years, asking for the government and social media companies to ban everyone they disagree with. You asked for it, you begged for it, now you’ve got it.
This is a technology forum. If the article is relevant here at all, it’s because of Microsoft. A better argument could probably be made that the article shouldn’t be here.
It is relevant because Microsoft is shutting down people their accounts for prosecuting war crimes. This should be a wakeup call for people to stop using services by the Fascist American government.
Microsoft is not part of the US government.
Yet the US government has full control over it.
It has to comply with US laws, is what you mean.
And those laws currently serve to suppress the international rule of law, and to enable fascism.
Why would you possibly think this is no big deal, when you see the size of the deal right in front of you?
US companies are subservient to Trump and will hurt you when Trump demands that.
And here I am having to oversee our organisation moving to Windows 11. I would happily not do that but I cannot imagine trying to administer a network of Linux computed.
I’m not even sure what the Linux equivalent of Active Directory is. That’s the one I’m stumped by.
I don’t think there is one I think the only way to do that would be to wander around with a bunch of .iso files and install what is needed where. At that point I think I’d rather just deal with Microsoft.
The title is still misleading and should have been worded better. Also company complying with sanctions is not news. The only reason it’d be newsworthy is if Microsoft locked his account independently.
No, the fact that MS can and will be forced to shut down accounts of people Trump dislikes is newsworthy in itself, and warning for everybody to avoid entrusting US companies with your data or money. If they can do it to this guy, they can do it to anyone.
That’s not newsworthy because it’s nothing new or unexpected. “US companies obey US law” isn’t newsworthy.
Are you intentionally trying to miss the point? Don’t you think it matters what the law is? Harmful laws are absolutely newsworthy. Your data not being safe in the biggest data platforms in the world is absolutely newsworthy. I don’t understand how you can be so apathetic about that.
That’s not new though. Since 2020 the Biden government was forcing multiple social media sites to censor accounts and posts and to force through an agenda, and the people who are complaining over this were likely the ones who had no issue with that - because it was their “side” doing the censoring. Those of us who did call it out WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING were called conspiracy theorists, told we were spreading “misinformation”, and so on. You didn’t care then, why now?
What do you mean by “data not being safe”? Losing access to your email? Any “data” that you have in a third party service isn’t “safe”, this isn’t new and it isn’t news.
Because it’s been this way since the start of the internet and it’s not going to change. Companies can ban people. Governments can force companies to ban people. Governments keep passing new laws to enable them to control speech and the narrative online because they know that the mainstream media that they control is going the way of the dodo. Those of us who have been fighting against it for well over a decade at this point are over it because the people crying about it now were the same people calling for it for the last 4 years, asking for the government and social media companies to ban everyone they disagree with. You asked for it, you begged for it, now you’ve got it.