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Microsoft bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails and fires the employee who protested Microsoft during event. (infosec.pub)
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Microsoft fires Joe Lopez for disrupting Genocide-profiteer Satya Nadella during Microsoft Build Keynote speech and bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails!!! Yet another chapter in a long tale of Microsoft's intimidation, retaliation, repression, and censorship culture.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

A company^[which is basically a dictatorship by the top management, for the top management] excommunicates a worker^[that is here on paper, to work and nothing else and be paid for that] for disrupting work^[as is defined by the top management and not by any other entity] and having not worked for the amount of time the worker was disrupting the work.

At least logically sound.

It is not a community. It is not a non-profit, community oriented company. It is a company that does whatever it does, for money and power for itself ant not for anyone that gives power to it.
It is to be expected.

Why did companies start getting power over the people more than the organisations that are supposed to be for the people?

[–] pyr0ball@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You've got it backwards. For most of history it was the other way around. We got to see a brief tantalizing glimpse of it in the 'oughties and naughties, and then the people who's lifestyle depends on an exploitable workforce got scared and decided that was enough freedom for the peons

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

But wasn't it that for most of history, there were no such pyramidal corporations and the only ones that were, were full-blown kingdoms, with the more trade-oriented ones, being more co-operative than corporate?

While trying to articulate my thoughts, I realise how lacking my historical information regarding this aspect is. I guess there might have been more corporate entities during the reconnaissance.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

lol. The source is a single instagram? Gonna call bullshit on that.

[–] Pro@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The source is the No Azure For Apartheid post.

You literally hear about them everytime a Microsoft employee disturb a event/ publicly protest Microsoft actions.