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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: 2) by stretch611 on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:51PM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @07:51PM (#695245)

    Wouldn't the foot soldiers in this case be the actual ICE agents?

    Or would the foot soldiers be the republican congress critters that are too afraid to step up to the shitstorm known as Trump?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:18AM (#695404)

    Don't blame congress for anything. They are doing what they are told. Blame the people that keep reelecting them instead taking the initiative to replace them. The voters are the foot soldiers, just as much to blame for everything we suffer as anybody else you can conjure up.