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  • But then why mention it at all? It seems to me to send a contradictory message that we want these companies to listen to the will of the people, but also oh no, why did they do that. Sure, OP doesn’t mention it again, but it is the basis for the entire post.

    Netanyahu’s Isreal is basically a regime of criminals committing atrocities, so anything that fucks them over, I’m down with. And to be clear, I’m not saying OP is supporting them in any way. It just seems like there should be better examples than this specific case where a company is doing what we’ve been demanding that we could use to get everyone away from reliance on American big tech.

    Off the top of my head, Google’s recent announcement that they’re going to block sideloading apps that aren’t approved by them, or if we wanna use MS, their whole Recall feature in Windows is a horrible invasion of privacy, and is why I just finished switching to Linux. Those would be far better topic starters for this discussion, IMO.


  • A huge number of people have been boycotting and pressuring Microsoft to get them to do exactly this because Israel is using their platform to further their insane genocide. I haven’t seen any resistance to this idea, but now you’re saying this shouldn’t happen? While I agree that everyone should reduce their reliance on American big tech, this specific case of MS finally listening to a large amount of their non-Isreali customers isn’t the example to use to further this goal.