Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests

Microsoft employees person discovered that immoderate emails they nonstop with the presumption "Palestine" oregon "Gaza" are getting temporarily blocked from being sent to recipients wrong and extracurricular the company. The No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA) protestation radical reports that "dozens of Microsoft workers" person been incapable to nonstop emails with the words "'Palestine," "Gaza," and "Genocide" successful email taxable lines oregon successful the assemblage of a message.

"Words similar 'Israel' oregon 'P4lestine' bash not trigger specified a block," accidental NOAA organizers. "NOAA believes this is an effort by Microsoft to soundlessness idiosyncratic escaped code and is simply a censorship enacted by Microsoft enactment to discriminate against Palestinian workers and their allies."

Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented immoderate signifier of email changes to trim "politically focused emails" wrong the company.

"Emailing ample numbers of employees astir immoderate taxable not related to enactment is not appropriate. We person an established forum for employees who person opted successful to governmental issues," says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw successful a connection to The Verge. "Over the past mates of days, a fig of politically focused emails person been sent to tens of thousands of e …

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