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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:11PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:11PM (#695322)

    Stream video, and broadcast TV over the border. Show gruesome torture. Nobody else will make the trip. Fewer people would get hurt, because almost nobody would be crazy enough to try.

    Any style will do: ancient, medieval, high-tech...

    We can sandpaper them to death. We can use the breaking wheel. We can crucify them. We can stone them. We can submerge them in acid. We can catapult them. We can fire them from cannons. We can draw and quarter them. We can starve them. We can smoke them. We can boil them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:27PM (#695331)

    We can sandpaper them to death. We can use the breaking wheel. We can crucify them. We can stone them. We can submerge them in acid. We can catapult them. We can fire them from cannons. We can draw and quarter them. We can starve them. We can smoke them. We can boil them.

    That's what you're keeping out. [ranker.com] Ask Barry [twitter.com] or Hillary [youtu.be]

  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:36AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:36AM (#695385) Homepage Journal

    Let me tell you, we did a couple of examples. Which the Fake News MSM ignored. Claudia Patricia Gómez González and Roxana Hernandez. RIP!!!!

    And you'll be seeing more and more examples, believe me. Until our Border is safe and our Immigration Law is fixed. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration. Go for it! WIN!