That's what you get for trusting Microsoft with anything...or Google...or Apple...or Facebook... stop tying your communication to these companies, they can pull the rug at any time.

MS probably doesn’t care who calls who. I’d be surprised if this wasn’t a government issued order and they can’t disclose it.

Fucking disgusting

This is a pretty misleading article. They cite the BBC "investigation" as a source, but if you go to the BBC article you'll quickly see it's not an investigation or anything near that. It's just a reporting of the anecdotes of 3 individuals who happen to be Palestinians living abroad. You can't establish any type of conclusions on a sample size that small.

This isn't a study, it's not a survey, it's not a poll, it doesn't prove that Microsoft is intentionally making these bans, it doesn't track down the actual reasons for the bans, or anything really. The BBC article is fine for what it is, just a reporting of a mildly interesting event, but this windoscentral article is just bad bait.

Well, fuck Microsoft now more so.

The corpos can fuck you over any time for any reason. If your data is not held on your own infrastructure, it's not your data. If your computer runs Windows, it's not your computer.

Genuinely shocking and disgusting. What is Microsoft's problem with people just trying to live their lives? They absolutely need a class action lawsuit over this. I'm so glad I just switched to Ubuntu as my default and now really don't want to give this sh*thole company another cent.

Holy balls we are living in the wild west era of the internet.

Shit needs to be regulated.

Just I'm not super confident regulation will come in the form of mandatory encryption at rest, end-to-end encryption by default and only not when necessary, banning selling data to 3rd parties, being able to quickly and speedily unban unjustly banned accounts by regulator intervention (like this one).

Terms of service are bullshit when our entire digital identities are attached to emails.

Looking around, the regulation we'll see will instead be in the form "nothing to fear if you've got nothing to hide."

I can daydream, though.

The digital genocide of Palestinians hath commenced.