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idriss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I get your point. But Microsoft knows exactly who is using their cloud and why (id proof and industry), vs something for everyone to grab (LF doesnt require id proof and industry). Microsoft is knowingly serving child murderers and it knows their tech is used to do exactly that.

You cannot ban kitchen knives because there were a mass stab, but you enforce strict background check so you dont sell rifles to school shooters.

In other words, impossible to enforce linux ban without removing the open source aspect of it and affect good people like, but totally possible just not serve somebody commiting a genocide.

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CassiniWarden@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This is an important distinction, and one I wasn’t aware of, that Microsoft know exactly who, where and when the AI is being used, and what exactly it is being used for: the genocide of Palestinians. And who knows what other genocides will follow.

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freely1333@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I mean they sell to tons of military folks I assume. I know people didn’t sign up for it but the difference between genocide and military operation is purely what side you’re on. Also where do we draw the line? Windows use? Or just ai because of the mass surveillance capabilities? I can’t see that genie going back in the bottle.

Nothing wrong with the protest and good on them for getting the word out because the scale is crazy but we saw this same shit 20 years ago and nobody has the appetite to politically challenge the status quo so far as the intelligence community etc. and scummy use of technology.

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- idriss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Genocide vs military op depends on side? I am on neither side, an observer from outside and I can see one fully armed side holocausting another side for the past 70 years and making sure nobody from anywhere in the world complain about it through lobbying.
  
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- denialisposdtected@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  the difference between genocide and military operation is purely what side you’re on.
  
  The difference between rape and a good time is also purely what side you’re on.
  
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