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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, @11:41PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:41PM (#695365)

    Gassing the Jews did not come out of the blue. It was preceded by a series of deliberate, planned, measurered steps that were 100% clear in retrospect. You're seeing the exact same pattern in the USA, and it has gone far beyond the "Then they came for the Trade Unionists..." part.

    Can you elaborate on precisely when a president backed by Jewish businessmen is going to start "gassing the Jews"?

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:06AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:06AM (#695401) Journal
    Still has yet to go after the trade unionists and Communists too.

  • (Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:56AM (1 child)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:56AM (#695505) Journal

    I love how people are invoking Godwin's law in response to random crap at the same time Holocaust: Yemen Edition is currently in the works.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:10PM (#695610)

      Whataboutism

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:03PM (#695565)

    And the moderates to radicalize them, then used the 'plight of the persecuted Jews' to get the country they had been carefully buying up land and committing acts of terrorism in for years in their attempts to create a Zionist state. The creation of Israel makes Machiavelli and Sun Tzu proud.