According to what Microsoft has prohibited emails for the internal employee that contains the phrase “Palestine” or “Gaza”. The report concerned with the absence of Azure for Apartheid (Noa), a group of Microsoft workers that formed to protest the company at the time at the time with the technology of the IDF – is something that has been confirmed since then, with clarification of its internal reviews in the jazz.
“This is an attempt by Microsoft to silence freedom of expression of workers, which is the censorship of the Microsoft leadership to discriminate against Palestinian workers and their allies,” Microsoft Hossam NASR (Paywalled). NASR added that “words such as” Israel “or” P4LESTINE “do not lead to such a mass.
When asked about the comment by Verge, Microsoft spokesman Frank Show replied with the following:
“Email for large numbers of employees on any topic that is not related to the inappropriate work. We have a fixed forum for employees who have chosen political issues. Over the past two days, a number of concentrated emails have been sent politically to tens of thousands of employees throughout the company, and we have taken measures to try to reduce emails that were not chosen.”
As The Verge Note, the email blocs followed a week of employee protests about the company’s dealings with the Israeli army. There were protests during the Microsoft developer conference this week. On Monday, former employee Joe Lopez boycotted Satia Nadella by screaming, “What about you showing the crimes of the Israeli war in which Azour operates?” , Before sending email messages to “thousands” of colleagues. Microsoft Lopez launched on the same day.
The province, Divestment, and the current sanctions movement for the public call for Microsoft’s Pares, including Xbox products such as Game Pass. BDS organizers from NASR and ABDO Mohamed, former Microsoft employee. Both were shot after the protest of the Palestinians who were killed in Gaza outside the company in Washington, the headquarters.