Microsoft shuts down email account of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People need to stop using M$.

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  • GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I totally agree, and I just switched from Windows to Linux for my desktop, but this isn’t on Microsoft - it’s sanctions on the ICC by the fascist regime running the country where they (Microsoft) are based in support of the fascist regime destroying Gaza. (I know I’m probably over simplifying it, but that’s my take on the article)

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    • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s still preemptive compliance by Microsoft.

      Trump loves this shit because if it blows up, he can just say “I never ordered this.”

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    • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve used Linux since 2005.

      Since M$ started adding spyware, I have tried to avoid it as much as possible. Proton has been amazing with getting games running.

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, the EU has been building out alternatives to American cloud companies like Microsoft for a while now, and it’s coming in handy for some of them. I think France in particular are working on this and launched their own alternatives to Google Docs etc.

    techspot.com/…/107225-france-germany-unveil-docs-…

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    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmm we may have for a long time considered alternatives to the American cloud and tools but we still are extremely reliant on it in all administrations in France. As I recall 70% of our online government services are on American clouds. We also are almost exclusively using Microsoft windows and office for the desktop workstations.

      I’m pessimistic in the sense that Europe has tried to offer an European cloud before. It was a spectacular failure that just costs us a lot of money so that businesses here could just take the money and then pretend they couldn’t make it work.

      We definitely had a real shot in Europe to be sovereign. We just missed it. It’s never too late but it’s so prohibitively expensive to switch out of Microsoft ecosystem that many governments entities will rather fork out money to Microsoft.

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  • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure but this looks like Microsoft complying with sanctions. I was unaware sanctions were applied to the ICC, which is complete nonsense.

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• merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  misleading title

  The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.

  The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.

  Some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC and the leaders of one won’t even reply to emails from court officials.

  Those are just some of the hurdles facing court staff since U.S. President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, according to interviews with current and former ICC officials, international lawyers and human rights advocates.

  this is why ☞ “President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan”

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• filister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Defending human rights and condemning war crimes is now punishable.

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• Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider

  Whose CEO publicly stated that “Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses”. Oh, the irony.

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  • TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh they tackled them. Then they held them down, shook out their lunch money, and made them do what every they tell them to do.

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• Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is fucking dangerous. Total watershed moment.

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• mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m on the other side of the world from Microsoft HQ, and I can still hear the screaming.

  Because this was basically a one way decision that will now block them from a lot of future contracts with governments, organizations and companies. It is literally not worth the risk for anyone to take on long term email contracts with them anymore, and its use will be banned as primary personal email for a lot of positions around the world as well.

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• OwlHamster@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like that the title of this post points out the least interesting part of the article, well done.

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• HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My mans was using Hotmail?

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kind of appalling that the ICC isnt using self hosted email with proper E2EE.

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    • DV8@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you think you can set up mail infrastructure with on premise everything that is available to your not on premise workers safer than Microsoft, you will be spending a huge amount of money to do so.

      It just turns out that the US has become a rogue state that alligns with the type of war criminals and dictators that the ICC wants to prosecute. I really don’t think anyone would have predicted this 10 to 15 years ago when this mail choice was made.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  so glad i installed mint. also user codeberg instead of gh people.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now he’s got an excuse to get an actual good email, at least.

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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m currently in the long tedious process of replacing all my details for every website and service with an email address at a domain I actually own, before some AI bot at Google decides that some random shit violates their TOC and deletes my Gmail.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because they were ordered to by the government or face enormous fines and repercussions.

  Preeeeetty big thing to leave out of the headline if you ask me.

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  • mcv@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doesn’t change the fact that they did it, though. Although “US govt forced MS to shut down prosecutor’s email” would indeed have been more accurate.

    The question still remains to whether corporations should bow to tyrannical demands. I think they do so too eagerly and should fight it more. If they don’t, that’s a pretty clear sign to anyone that your data and email simply isn’t safe in their hands.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It does change that fact, because again - they’re forced to by law. There’s no wiggle room. Had they chosen to defy them and take them to court, Microsoft probably would have been forced to cease trading in the USA or something equally as company destroying.

      Your data and email isn’t ever “safe” unless you’re hosting every single part of it yourself, and even then - if the government orders you to do something, you’ll fold like origami when faced with the alternative.

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So they complied with a fascist regime to avoid fines and repercussions… They still complied with a fascist regime.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As I said in another comment, it’s not Microsoft’s position to be the judge of who is and isn’t fascist. It’s their position to stay in business, and you don’t do that by disobeying the government.

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