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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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[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Matrix originating from israel does sketch me out a bit since they are famous for spyware. Do source code reviews check out?

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[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Surely the US government won't like that if they're US citizens, right?

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

They’re brown citizens though, so the US won’t do anything to help.

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[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I don't understand why it's so mainstream to equate Palestine with Hamas. It's as if there is an actual conspiracy going on to to support this genocide. Is it because it's so easy to say you're antiemetic if you oppose "the Jews"?

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

I don’t understand why it’s so mainstream to equate Palestine with Hamas

Decades of Islamophobic propaganda combined with a strong American economic interest in Israel might have played a role.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's completely normalized racism. America has been institutionalizing Islamophobia for years to justify their invasions of the Middle East where we kill millions of ~~innocent civilians~~ "terorrists"

Before the 2000's a lot of that manufactured hate was directed towards Asians because we needed to justify war crimes in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos etc.

[–] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Without America the Palestine people would have starved to death years ago. Their own Arabian brothers won't even help them. America doesn't need to institionalize islamaphobia when they do it themselves. You can look into any Islam media and you would find they actively burn u.s. flags on state media and call for our destruction. Nothing was needed to justify your made up war crimes in any of those countries because they all started the wars. Japan bombed pearl harbor. North Korea invaded South Korea. Vietnam Gulf of tonkin. Etc etc.

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

LO-fuckin-L at using Gulf of Tonkin, a well known false flag operation meant solely to draw the US into a protracted conflict we had no business being in. 🤡

[–] Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I mean sure maybe the August 4th incident was overblown but the August 2nd 1964 incident did happen where our ship was attacked by Vietnam torpedo boats. Maybe you get attacked and don't do shit at all about it who is the real clown there?

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ohhhh got it, only one false flag attack was committed by the US. That means the war in Vietnam was justified.

To be clear regarding "false flag" operations for anyone unaware: this entails attacking our own military in order to provide spurious cassus belli to enter a conflict we had no valid reason to enter. In this case, a civil war on the other side of the planet, in a bay we should never have been in to begin with.

How stupid does a person need to be to think that, not only was the war in Vietnam justified, but that the Gulf of Tonkin false flag incident is that justification?

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

Vietnam torpedo boats attacked our ship on August 2 1964. Deny that fact as much as you want. Our ship was in international waters when attacked. There were multiple justifications to get in that war I don't really care to get into them. Tldr: We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2007/07/gary-hart-lynne-cheney-and-war-with-china/7644/

Early in 2001, the commission presented a report to the incoming G.W. Bush administration warning that terrorism would be the nation's greatest national security problem, and saying that unless the United States took proper protective measures a terrorist attack was likely within its borders. Neither the president nor the vice president nor any other senior official from the new administration took time to meet with the commission members or hear about their findings.

The commission had 14 members, split 7-7, Republican and Democrat, as is de rigeur for bodies of this type. Today Hart told me that in the first few meetings, commission members would go around the room and volunteer their ideas about the nation's greatest vulnerabilities, most urgent needs, and so on.

At the first meeting, one Republican woman on the commission said that the overwhelming threat was from China. Sooner or later the U.S. would end up in a military showdown with the Chinese Communists. There was no avoiding it, and we would only make ourselves weaker by waiting. No one else spoke up in support.

The same thing happened at the second meeting -- discussion from other commissioners about terrorism, nuclear proliferation, anarchy of failed states, etc, and then this one woman warning about the looming Chinese menace. And the third meeting too. Perhaps more.

Finally, in frustration, this woman left the commission.

"Her name was Lynne Cheney," Hart said. "I am convinced that if it had not been for 9/11, we would be in a military showdown with China today." Not because of what China was doing, threatening, or intending, he made clear, but because of the assumptions the Administration brought with it when taking office. (My impression is that Chinese leaders know this too, which is why there are relatively few complaints from China about the Iraq war. They know that it got the U.S. off China's back!)

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

So what you’re saying is: Lynne Cheney has been wrong for 23 years so far.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Plenty of folks on here have bought into the China Boogeyman narrative. Her family's propaganda has been devastatingly effective. We likely will be at war with China in another generation, given our current trajectory.

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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?

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[–] 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.

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Meanwhile we get banned here for saying war crimes bad.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can't say war crimes are bad, because that helps Trump win. Trump will do more war crimes. Ergo, saying war crimes are bad means you're in favor of war crimes.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can't say war crimes are bad, because that helps Trump win.

So am I supposed to root for Putin now?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You need to root for Joe Biden, because he is the only man who has ever beaten Donald Drumpf.

If you are not rooting for Joe Biden, you are anti-American.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everything in this comment is true.

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