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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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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (17 children)

LO-fuckin-L at using Gulf of Tonkin, a well known false flag operation meant solely to draw the US into a protracted conflict we had no business being in. 🤡

[–] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works -5 points 4 months ago (16 children)

I mean sure maybe the August 4th incident was overblown but the August 2nd 1964 incident did happen where our ship was attacked by Vietnam torpedo boats. Maybe you get attacked and don't do shit at all about it who is the real clown there?

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Ohhhh got it, only one false flag attack was committed by the US. That means the war in Vietnam was justified.

To be clear regarding "false flag" operations for anyone unaware: this entails attacking our own military in order to provide spurious cassus belli to enter a conflict we had no valid reason to enter. In this case, a civil war on the other side of the planet, in a bay we should never have been in to begin with.

How stupid does a person need to be to think that, not only was the war in Vietnam justified, but that the Gulf of Tonkin false flag incident is that justification?

[+] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works -8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Vietnam torpedo boats attacked our ship on August 2 1964. Deny that fact as much as you want. Our ship was in international waters when attacked. There were multiple justifications to get in that war I don't really care to get into them. Tldr: We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.

[–] pop@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.

LMAO. Your military protects interests of the billionaires and their economy. It has fuck all to do about democracy.

But keep guzzling whatever you already are, those braincells aren't going to repeat propaganda by itself.

[–] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

South Vietnam allied. Democracy in the region couldn't fall because it creates a domino effect where democracy looks week.

Wtf are you talking about billionaires. Our military protects the interests of all our allies especially European and Asian.

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

🤡 👟👟

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

You use re-vanced lmfao. Fuck outta here brokie. Just a sad propagandized loser who despises their own country.

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

Lol nothing says confidence like going through someone's comment history to try to find things to hurt them... Good think I'm not ashamed of either of those things.

And just to clarify the latter: criticizing your own country because of the awful things it is doing ≠ hate. Usually it's literally the opposite. If I despised my country, I wouldn't be so distraught as I watch it being sold for parts for next to nothing.

🤡 👟👟

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