Peter SchaarMay 15, 2025

#Microsoft has blocked its services to the International Criminal Court by order of Donald #Trump. The #ICC prosecutor doesn’t have access to his #email. Source:AP

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

AP News
Show threadℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕀π•₯𝕖@world: /# May 15, 2025

@PWS_1 Let that be a lesson learned. Such institutions should run on public and open source infrastructure.

Governments and international institutions shouldn't be dependent on private companies.

Show threadJona JoachimMay 16, 2025
@celeste_42bit
I really don't get why everybody is using Microsoft360 for mail. It's really not difficult to set up a mail infrastructure and it offers so much flexibility to have your own. Make international criminal investigation mails go through Microsoft ? wtf?
@PWS_1
Show threadStreetDoggMay 16, 2025

@jaj @celeste_42bit @PWS_1

Because MS Office, Windows, Active Directory, Exchange/O365, MS Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive, ... is essentially one tool.

If you *only* need mail, you can use whatever you want, but that's not how IT works.

You can spend endless hours trying to make dozens of different tools kinda work together but not really, or just buy one tool. Microsoft for everything. You barely even have to host anything anymore. Nothing else can even remotely compete.

Show threadtessaraktMay 24, 2025
@StreetDogg @jaj @celeste_42bit @PWS_1 Then you have all that stuff not working properly, but together. I fail to see the advantage.
Show threadJona Joachim
@tessarakt
I think the biggest problem is the skill of sysadmins declining steadily
@StreetDogg @celeste_42bit @PWS_1
May 24, 2025 at 11:05amFedilab