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.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:09PM (2 children)
Suddenly conservatives are totally fine with the government kidnapping people's children.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:24PM
Sane people are fine with laws against criminals being enforced. If a parent endangers their child, the child is taken into protective custody. Take a child into a country illegally, the child will be taken into custody when the parents are arrested. Law should be updated to charge reckless parents will endangerment and trafficking!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:46PM
As long as the children are put into the fluffy cloud instead of cages, I'm down wit dat, mon.
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