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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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[–] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Do you ignore the majority of Palestinians support Hamas? It's factual reality the majority of Palestinians democratically voted and elected Hamas which ran on a destroy Israel agenda. In reality they asked and started this war due to that election. It's not because it's so easy to say they are antisemitic it's because it is factually correct to say it.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So all Americans are dickheads because Trump won democratically in 2016?

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

What if you changed that statement to all conservatives instead of all Americans? Because not all conservatives support Trump or voted for him in 2016. But he is now representative of them.

Like. Hamas wouldn't exist without the actions of Israel. And that is exactly why so many Palestinians have thrown their support behind Hamas. But that doesn't mean Palestinians, Hamas, or even conservative Americans are a monolith.

The point is rather that the group is being labeled in such a way to discredit efforts to give Palestinians the human rights everyone should have. It's the same thing that happened with the Black Community in the US and the black Panthers. This has been a thing for centuries with just about every grass roots or guerilla militia in existence. At some point if you buck the ruling classes power, you become a target and the propaganda follows.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Every sentence in your comment is another israeli propaganda lie. None of them are factually correct. Congrats on a new Hasbara record.

[–] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From river to sea, right? They can't even make it past the river though.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago

Do you ignore the majority of Palestinians support Hamas?

Imagine supporting the only viable resistance organization when you're subjected to a slow-burn genocide. The humanity!

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

This guy answered “what would you do?” with “enthusiastically support the Nazis”

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

They didn't actually support Hamas in 2023, until Israel bombed them into the stone age and supported shifted. Which is the same phenomenon we've seen in every war with a massive bombing campaign since 1936. They did vote democratically, and that vote was blocked by Israel and the US. The platform though was a moderate one in which they drew a line between Israel and people. They very much want to destroy the country but they believe they can live with the people as long as there's not an apartheid power structure. A line they still have in their doctrine today, a line people like you blithely ignore. Also that election was nearly 20 years ago. Are you admitting that Hamas and Israel were already at war? Usually the party line is there was peace and doves and olive trees until the barbarous Hamas blew it all up. And the people in Hamas are also semites. They are literally semites.