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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: 3, Insightful) by crafoo on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:57PM (5 children)

    by crafoo (6639) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:57PM (#695343)

    What do you call that thing? You know, where you mix a nice chunky soup up of monopolies, regulatory capture, tissue-thin barrier between corporate and government job-hopping. What's it called? You know, when corporations and government just kind of, fade into each other with no clear boundary?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:05PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:05PM (#695350)

    The EU!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:19PM (#695358)

      Funny, but an equally funny response would be 'The USA!'

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:11AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:11AM (#695372)

      Guess it is time for the US to follow Spain's lead. Show the world we're not a country of cowards.

      Just in case any of you rejects miss the point, kick out the government and get a special election going.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:39AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:39AM (#695386)

        The Constitution does not allow for this process as far as I know.

        We would need to elect enough state-level politicians for the states to call an Article V convention.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:45AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:45AM (#695437) Journal

    Fascism, if you're Mussolini. Isn't he the one who said (translated) "Fascism should rather be called corporatism, as it is a merger of the powers of the corporation and the state?"

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