Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.
Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩
Get the hell out of it right now.
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Maundering on the pad 🇵🇸 ☮️
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Eric the half-a-bee
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Probably the most calamitous Trump news of the whole damned month!
This is really really bad people. Don’t you think it’s time you all did something about it?
Jesus CatBoi
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Dr. Christopher Kunz
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •As bad as this is, it follows "due process". Khan has been assigned a "Specially Designated Individual" by US OFAC (by order of the 🟠) and as a US corporation, MSFT was legally required to sever any and all contractual connections with him. The guy probably doesn't even have a Netflix account now.
This is the same legal process that is used for, say, ransomware dudes or russian presidents.
If the chief prosecutor of the ICC can be arbitrarily put on the SDN, everyone can.
adingbatponder
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •What would happen if #apple suddenly shut its #icloud ?
Need by law to know where in the computer our raw data is & by law to be able to back it up using 3rd party systems.
Raimund Eder
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in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Susan Ville (@villebooks@mastodon.social)
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in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Januschka Abroad
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Bad choice of tools. There were signs on the wall. Which precautions were taken?
And yes, shame om MS.
PypeBros
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Ruud Steltenpool
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in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Out of what? As you yourself said, the ICC has no presence in the USA.
While disgusting, the whole story was entirely predictable:
The ICC issues arrest warrants for a key US ally => The US sanctions the ICC => US companies (Microsoft) are forced to stop serving the ICC, just like they can't serve any other sanctioned entity. More interestingly, UK companies (banks) have done the same - although unlike Microsoft, they had no legal obligation to do it.
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in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Baron Vonskinnback
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in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Bruno BEAUFILS
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Even if I agree with the danger and seriousness of that move as well as with your advice, your sentence "#Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia." is misleading.
The article did not state that they block #ICC to its services but that they block the personal email of their chief prosecutor.
Let us not use the same lies or approximations as those fascists.
#Fascism #Autocraty #Criminal #BigTech
tessarakt
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •John Caveney woke is me🛠️
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •SpaceLifeForm
in reply to DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ • • •Petty bullshit by trump and cowardness by ms.
The lesson to learn is to never get dependent on ms in the first place.
Frank Heijkamp
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