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

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: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:24PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:24PM (#695228)

    We do need to eliminate borders! People have a right to go and live where they want. Discrimination based of place of birth is just as bad as that based on skin color, gender, etc. You just have to make it flow both ways. They come here for the money, we go there to civilize the savages. Start with enforcing traffic laws and the use of indoor plumbing. And the universal pay scale could be the equivalent of a case of beer per hour.

    We should be at least as free as caribou to go where the food is.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:16PM (#695324)

    We should be at least as free as caribou to go where the food is.

    And then there'll be no food - you are not Jesus Christ and you cannot feed the 5000. It's attitudes like yours that destroy civilisations.

  • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:40AM (3 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:40AM (#695387)

    At least you are stupid enough to say what is the obvious subtext to carrying this fucking stupid article. So I will break my normal policy of ignoring ACs and use your post. The American People get to decide whether we want be a bordersless shithole and they decided. The election of 2016 was very clear on that point, one side agreed with you on "yes, lets become a 3rd world shithole" and the other side based the whole campaign on "Build the wall!" I think we all remember who won. But you retards only agree with election results when you win. You lost. Get over it.

    So lets unpack this article's defective premise. To imply Microsoft should be ashamed of having ICE as a customer is to imply ICE is somehow outside the bounds of decency because they are actually enforcing the laws for a welcome change. That is not just stupid it is in fact evil.

    Instead of saturation coverage of the "caged children" bullshit on American cable TV as part of the effort to push the current Ryan sellout, can we convince Mexican and Central American TV to carry these lies? Then they might actually serve a productive purpose by causing some of the invaders to reconsider, to stay home.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:32AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:32AM (#695409)

      Another example of why majority rule sucks. The law is as ass, capricious and fickle. Borders exist to serve the slave trade. They are prison walls and must be torn down. Some rights are truly inherent. The freedom of movement is one of those that shouldn't subject to whims of the moron majority. But we have to tear down ALL borders to make it work.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:47PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:47PM (#695632)

        Your house's walls infringe on my rights of free movement, open your doors you fascist!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:58PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:58PM (#695792)

          Displacement of others is not permitted.