Don’t trust Microslop!
Brad smith already lied about divesting from the IDF last year, only to increase support and spread it to a handful of other Israeli defense orgs. They are still supporting Israel with what they don’t say, don’t believe them.
Rule number 1: don't get caught.
A rare non-fuck-up from MS. Wow.
Microslop realized that enabling the genocide was bad PR so they're trying to distance themselves from it
I'm more concerned with the result than whether or it not their intentions were pure when performing it. Doing a good thing for the wrong reasons is still a good thing happening.
The bad thing: M$ facilitated the murder of dozens of thousands of people.
The good: They fired one guy.
Wow, that's some good they did, huh? Totally forgiven now.
I know it's hard to see things in a non-binary manner, but would you prefer there were those two bad things still happening, it is the reduction by one not a positive?
If it comes after years of blatantly ignoring the public's demands, is it still a "good move"?
Yes.
That's a dumb question. Was this move better than not doing this move: yes.
Is it being a conspiracy theorist to think that they might have allowed it with the intention of making this exact move if it was discovered?
Scapegoating a problem is standard m.o. for this stuff.
Hopefully that doesn’t deter the icc from going after all the collaborators they can, whether at Microslop or elsewhere.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Not really, it's a standard procedure.
Paraphrasing Veep:
"Satya Nadella keep track of all the important decisions in the company to ensure that all contracts comply with our commitment towards privacy. That being said he knew nothing about it and once he found out he immediately fired his number five director and a couple of sixes."
That's a start, now do the same with whoever at Microsoft is responsible for Windows' surveillance of the rest of the world too!
They can’t fire everybody.
Why not? They do the same thing with all the video game developers they acquire.
Why not?
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