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Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gaza - BBC News

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Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gaza - BBC News - Lemmy.ca

> Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning. > BBC News has spoken to 20 Palestinians living abroad who say Microsoft, which owns the voice and video chat app, kicked them out of their accounts. The total number affected is thought to be much higher. > In some cases, these email accounts are more than 15 years old and the users have no way to retrieve emails, contacts or memories. > Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - but will not say how - and the decision is final. > The Gazans say they have no links to Hamas - designated as a terrorist organisation by some Western countries, including the US, where Microsoft is headquartered - and accuse the technology giant, the most valuable company in the world, of persecuting them unfairly.

Jul 11, 2024 at 1:18pmWeb
Show threaddvdnet62Jul 11, 2024
Skype is suck nowadays. use Signal
Show threadunmagicalJul 11, 2024
Or jitsi
Show threadcm0002Jul 11, 2024
Nowadays? It’s been sucking since 2011 LMAO
Show threadJohnnyCanuckJul 11, 2024
Can Signal call landlines or mobiles over the phone network? The big reason these folks are using Skype is to call phones on the phone network.
Show threadPumpkin EscobarJul 11, 2024
When they’re not recording your desktop in an unencrypted database for AI, boot-looping your matching with bad patches or showing ads in your start menu, they’re disabling your account for calling family to see if they’re still alive. Damn.
Show threadSGGeorwellJul 11, 2024
Evil is on parade in our time.
Show threadSoupJul 11, 2024
Microsoft: The only thing we’re good at is amazing you with how bad we can truly be.
Show threadkubicaJul 11, 2024
Not even close to the same but they decided to close an account that I created because the first thing I did was to turn off all the privacy settings I found.
Show threadBeaver [she/her]Jul 11, 2024
I’m glad I switched to proton.
Show threadMaeveJul 11, 2024
Is this where we are, or nearly are? https://arplan.org/2020/02/21/mussolini-corporate-state/
ARPLAN - Mussolini on the Corporate State

Mussolini's resolution and speech of November, 1933, outlining the shortcomings of capitalism and presenting the corporatist alternative.

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Show threadseeddJul 11, 2024
Fuck microsoft. I stopped using their products a long time ago, not only do they steal my data, they make my pay for stuff on top. And despite all that, their products are still garbage quality.
Show threaddoubtingtammyJul 11, 2024
Apartheid regime
Show threadReversalHatcheryJul 11, 2024

Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - but will not say how - and the decision is final.

Classic Microsoft move. Do you remember what happened to kids and people being forced to register a Microsoft account to not lose their paid license to Minecraft, but who didn’t want to hand out their phone numbers? Yeah. They have somehow “violated the terms of service”, even if they did nothing with their account after registration, other than the license being transferred!

Show threadDizzy Devil DuckyJul 11, 2024
Okay, regardless of what you think about the war going on in Israel, you at least gotta admit that this is fucked up. As if I needed another reason to never trust macrohard.
Show threadIchNichtenLichtenJul 11, 2024
“It’s been a week since our last attempt to fuck over our users, we must continue to innovate. Any ideas?”
Show threadSquizzyJul 11, 2024

There needs to be an international regulatory process with separate national regulatory agencies to address tech companies over reach. Sony will end any account that does a back charge even if it is a scam. Microsoft do this. You literally cannot get google support to help if you are a small business.

These services, to at least some degree impact lives and livelihoods to a huge extent.