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Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

Reportedly, Microsoft has been banning and wiping the accounts of users who have leveraged Skype to contact relatives in Gaza. In some cases, email accounts over a decade old have been locked, destroying access to banking accounts, OneDrive storage, and beyond.

United States resident Salah Elsadi lost his account of over 15 years in the dragnet. "I've had this Hotmail for 15 years. They banned me for no reason, saying I have violated their terms — what terms? Tell me. I've filled out about 50 forms and called them many many times." Eiad Hametto from Saudi Arabia echoed the report, "We are civilians with no political background who just wanted to check on our families. They’ve suspended my email account that I’ve had for nearly 20 years. It was connected to all my work. They killed my life online."

Many of the users affected by the bans expressed that Microsoft may be falsely labelling them as Hamas

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (49 children)

It's completely normalized racism. America has been institutionalizing Islamophobia for years to justify their invasions of the Middle East where we kill millions of ~~innocent civilians~~ "terorrists"

Before the 2000's a lot of that manufactured hate was directed towards Asians because we needed to justify war crimes in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos etc.

[+] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works -30 points 4 months ago (31 children)

Without America the Palestine people would have starved to death years ago. Their own Arabian brothers won't even help them. America doesn't need to institionalize islamaphobia when they do it themselves. You can look into any Islam media and you would find they actively burn u.s. flags on state media and call for our destruction. Nothing was needed to justify your made up war crimes in any of those countries because they all started the wars. Japan bombed pearl harbor. North Korea invaded South Korea. Vietnam Gulf of tonkin. Etc etc.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Without America the Palestine people would have starved to death years ago. Their own Arabian brothers won’t even help them.

Iran won't help Palestine, but also Iran is the shadowy hand behind Hamas.

Egypt won't help Palestine, but the CIA/MI5 need to coup the elected government every decade or three when it gets to Muslim Brotherhood-y.

Lebanon won't help Palestine, but Israel says there are tunnels into Gaza from Lebanon so they need to start bombing again.

Turkyie won't help Palestine, but the IDF had to murder Turkish aid workers in 2010 to prevent their aid flotilla from reaching the shore.

[–] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Iran won't help Palestine, but also Iran is the shadowy hand behind Hamas.

Your point being what? That they fund Hamas so they're helping?

Egypt won't help Palestine, but the CIA/MI5 need to coup the elected government every decade or three when it gets to Muslim Brotherhood-y.

Somehow Egypt helps them by having secret govt backed coups? Instead they could have just taken in refugees but why would they do that? They'll just have a coup instead.

Lebanon won't help Palestine, but Israel says there are tunnels into Gaza from Lebanon so they need to start bombing again.

So Lebanon helps the Palestine people by building tunnels where Hamas stored weapons and hostages?

Turkyie

I recall the Turkish police raiding those same charity offices accusing them of being linked to Islamic terrorists.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Your point being what? That they fund Hamas so they're helping?

Uh... Literally yes. Palestinian Islamist resistance is the only notable resistance movement in Palestine.

Somehow Egypt helps them by having secret govt backed coups? Instead they could have just taken in refugees but why would they do that? They'll just have a coup instead.

My man the Egyptian government is an American puppet what are you talking about?

So Lebanon helps the Palestine people by building tunnels where Hamas stored weapons and hostages?

Literally yes. See above.

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