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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.

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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 81 points 4 months ago (51 children)

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.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 66 points 4 months ago (46 children)

You have to trust someone with these communications, there is no free communication beyond face to face

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (27 children)
[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Signal is centrally hosted thus it's proverbial rug can be pulled.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Wait until you find out about internet service providers

[–] knightly@pawb.social 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can have more than one dumb pipe to push bits through, but if the ISP can read your network traffic then you have bigger problems than a single-point-of-failure.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do you have more than one ISP?

[–] knightly@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago

I'm very lucky in that regard. Not only do we have a local ISP and mobile service from a national carrier, but the electric co-op that provides our power just ran 2.5Gb/s fiber through the neighborhood and lets members use 200Mb/s on it for free.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

For the most part the ISP doesn't have a way to know you are using VoIP to contact people in a particular country (unless you are using a VoIP service owned by the ISP of course).

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

True. Yet another linchpin.

Edit: spelling.

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