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Microsoft Proudly Supports ICE In Its Work

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 19 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the oooh-look-shiny dept.

canopic jug writes:

Several sites are reporting, without reference to IBM's activities 70 years ago, that Microsoft's contact with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is drawing fire online. The Computer Business Review includes a quote from Microsoft now missing from their press release:

"ICE's decision to accelerate IT modernization using Azure Government will help them innovate faster while reducing the burden of legacy IT. The agency is currently implementing transformative technologies for homeland security and public safety, and we're proud to support this work with our mission-critical cloud," he wrote.

KUOW radio writes on their web site that Microsoft is facing outrage their for blog post touting ICE contract:

As outrage grew online, a Microsoft employee quietly removed mention of ICE from the January press release this morning. Social media users noticed that, too. The company has since restored the press release's original language, and called its removal a "mistake."

After a little bit of conference swag gets handed out and a few advertising contracts^W^Wscholarships get handed out, this will all blow over and be forgotten.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:20PM (1 child)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:20PM (#695298)

    That because for a lot of people, if they want to fly they either grow wings or fly United.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:51PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:51PM (#695311)

    Or, instead of flying, they get to where they're going via train, bus, or car. Or they get to an airport that another airline flies out of via train, bus, or car. It's not like flying is the only way to get from point A to point B.

    Yes, doing that might cost time and/or otherwise be a pain in the tuchas, but that's the kind of thing you do if you really want to boycott somebody. During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, most of the participants replaced riding the buses with walking for miles to get around town.

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