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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: 5, Interesting) by ilPapa on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:43PM (5 children)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:43PM (#695239) Journal

    First, ICE needs to be abolished. It is a big government agency designed to be abused, and it's completely out of control. There is absolutely no need for ICE and there was no need for ICE when it was created in 2003 during the panic after 9/11.

    Second, when this shit with the kiddie internment camps is over, there needs to be Nuremberg-style trials, for everyone from the people at the top making the policies right down to the individual ICE agents who are "only following orders".

    I'm confident there will be a reckoning for this Nazi shit. We now have a rogue president who believes he is above the law and he's following Hitler's playbook to the letter, implementing white supremacist ethnic cleansing policies to try to consolidate his power base of uneducated white men. If we wait for people to be put to death, it will be too late.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/trump-immigration-family-separation-poll-20180619.html [philly.com]

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:52PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:52PM (#695247)
    1. ICE exists to enforce immigration law
    2. Illegal immigration is a crime
    3. 'undesirables' have been prohibited entry since the Page Act of 1875
    4. ICE are holding aliens until they can be lawfully deported while the Nazi's prevented Jews from leaving
    5. You're a moron!

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:19PM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:19PM (#695264) Journal

      Illegal immigration is a crime

      Kidnapping is also a crime.

      How about we deport these criminals without becoming criminals ourselves in the process?

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:30PM (#695274)

        Nobody is being kidnapped by law enforcement, try ms13 if you want evidence of that.

  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:00PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:00PM (#695253)

    The company has since restored the press release's original language, and called its removal a "mistake."

    I bet someone there recognizes that if ICE uses Microsoft services, the (trivially hidden) introduced friction would hobble or delay them at least a little in implementing this horror. In line with your Nazi analogy, maybe it's preferable to the terrifying cost/perfomance efficiency and reliability they could get using a proper OS and toolset?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:36AM (#695384)

    uneducated white men

    You misogynist! You left 53% of white women.