Yeah, 3 years and they did not bother check how their tech was used by a state spy agency? Only review when journalists find out? Makes me wanna puke. And Amazon now hosting the data if mass surveilance…
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DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hypocritical at best
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Why are you talking like Microsoft didn’t know? They didn’t need “to check” or to “review”. They knew and didn’t care until it started impacting their bottom line.
They didn’t fire those employees because they thought they were wrong. They fired them for making a scene. For drawing public and news media attention to it. To try and stop the protesting employees from influencing even more employees.
This isn’t some “oopsie poopsies, we didn’t know! our bad!” thing.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uhhh… Exactly?
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In case it wasn’t clear, companies will gladly kill you if it pads their bottom line. Their only principle is “make more money”.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mainly just the megacorps, which most of us don’t work for.
Sitting a manager’s meeting, we had a choice. Do the thing that would cost our customers more, and bring us more profit, or do the moral thing. Customers were basically trapped, would have had to suck it up. After taking our input, the VP said, “Well… Guess we gotta do the right thing.”
My last job saw our CEO telling the board he intended to lose money over the next two years in order to build up our staff and products. The board applauded him. We fucked around and made a profit anyway. :)
Wish we had the moral fortitude to not work for these megacorps. Hell, even a strike could bring them to their knees overnight. Keep in mind, we’re so efficient now, “just in time” delivery and such, that a week-long strike would be devastating. Remember how fucking up the supply chain during COVID rattled downstream for a couple of years?
BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’ll take anything that’s a move in the right direction at this point. Gaza is the modern-day Holocaust and anything that moves the needle to make the killing stop is a good thing.
x4740N@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Microsoft claims they cut of some services from isereal’s unit 8200
Some doesn’t meal all
Also it’s a claim from Microsoft in a email seen by the guardian, we don’t know ìf the claim is actually true and they could be continuing in secret
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuckin’ A! This is why liberal so always fucking lose. “Not GOOD enough! Not PURE enough!”. All while the right says, “Meh, I’ll take it as a win.”
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah, this needs to be praised or they’ll just decide it’s never worth appeasing the left. You don’t need to say they’re a great company or anything, but this is a good move. If they see that they give this up and get nothing in return then guess what they’ll do next time? Absolutely nothing, or maybe shift to the right where they’ll actually be rewarded.