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Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

Reportedly, Microsoft has been banning and wiping the accounts of users who have leveraged Skype to contact relatives in Gaza. In some cases, email accounts over a decade old have been locked, destroying access to banking accounts, OneDrive storage, and beyond.

United States resident Salah Elsadi lost his account of over 15 years in the dragnet. "I've had this Hotmail for 15 years. They banned me for no reason, saying I have violated their terms — what terms? Tell me. I've filled out about 50 forms and called them many many times." Eiad Hametto from Saudi Arabia echoed the report, "We are civilians with no political background who just wanted to check on our families. They’ve suspended my email account that I’ve had for nearly 20 years. It was connected to all my work. They killed my life online."

Many of the users affected by the bans expressed that Microsoft may be falsely labelling them as Hamas

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 49 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Meanwhile we get banned here for saying war crimes bad.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Here? On Lemmy? Where did you get banned for saying that?

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Imaginationland.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -2 points 5 months ago

Hexbear and Lemmy.ml

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

How dare you speak ill of Daddy War Crimes

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've mostly seen comment removals. Mods seem to use the option to remove comments instead of the downvote button... I tried to make a forum for mod abuse and discussions about how forums are moderated, but so far nobody is using it.

Post to !mods@sopuli.xyz if you notice patterns of that sort of thing, maybe we can get it going.

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[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

!murderedbywords@feddit.uk

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Those are great notes, thank you! It's kind of a low-effort community though, I must confess. I figured if more people wanted to be part of it, it could become more serious with better formatting. Since that hasn't happened, I just threw in some stuff now and then to have any content at all.

Quite frankly you come across as a anti-feminist shitlord who has decided to be a busybody and make a whole community for you to be butthurt about feminist and anti-fascists mods. The reason nobody else contributes to the community you started is because you’ve set the bar so miserably low.

But yeah, you're right that might have meant I set the bar low. I was never much of a content creator. As for anti-feminism, yeah I am anti feminist. Not because I don't support and respect womens rights, but because under the guise of feminism, men become second-class citizens, due to the unfaultering belief that women always deserve more, and that being a man is a sin that should be punished. But that's not what the community is about. Anybody is free to post there.