Microsoft shuts down email account of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor
Microsoft shuts down email account of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor
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Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
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misleading title
The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
Some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC and the leaders of one won’t even reply to emails from court officials.
Those are just some of the hurdles facing court staff since U.S. President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, according to interviews with current and former ICC officials, international lawyers and human rights advocates.
did Microsoft also freeze his bank accounts?
this is the title ☞ "President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan"
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This is a technology forum. If the article is relevant here at all, it's because of Microsoft. A better argument could probably be made that the article shouldn't be here.
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It is relevant because Microsoft is shutting down people their accounts for prosecuting war crimes. This should be a wakeup call for people to stop using services by the Fascist American government.
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The title is still misleading and should have been worded better. Also company complying with sanctions is not news. The only reason it'd be newsworthy is if Microsoft locked his account independently.
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Defending human rights and condemning war crimes is now punishable.
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forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider
Whose CEO publicly stated that "Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses". Oh, the irony.
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Oh they tackled them. Then they held them down, shook out their lunch money, and made them do what every they tell them to do.
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This is fucking dangerous. Total watershed event.
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I'm on the other side of the world from Microsoft HQ, and I can still hear the shouting.
Because this was basically a one way decision that will now block them from a lot of future contracts with governments, organizations and companies.
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My mans was using Hotmail?
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Kind of appalling that the ICC isnt using self hosted email with proper E2EE. Or is this just his private email?
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If you think you can set up mail infrastructure with on premise everything that is available to your not on premise workers safer than Microsoft, you will be spending a huge amount of money to do so.
It just turns out that the US has become a rogue state that alligns with the type of war criminals and dictators that the ICC wants to prosecute. I really don't think anyone would have predicted this 10 to 15 years ago when this mail choice was made.
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I like that the title of this post points out the least interesting part of the article, well done.
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I’m currently in the long tedious process of replacing all my details for every website and service with an email address at a domain I actually own, before some AI bot at Google decides that some random shit violates their TOC and deletes my Gmail.
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Make sure you use a domain registrar and server that's in a suitable jurisdiction for you.
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so glad i installed mint. also user codeberg instead of gh people.
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Now he's got an excuse to get an actual good email, at least.
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Because they were ordered to by the government or face enormous fines and repercussions.
Preeeeetty big thing to leave out of the headline if you ask me.
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Doesn't change the fact that they did it, though. Although "US govt forced MS to shut down prosecutor's email" would indeed have been more accurate.
The question still remains to whether corporations should bow to tyrannical demands. I think they do so too eagerly and should fight it more. If they don't, that's a pretty clear sign to anyone that your data and email simply isn't safe in their hands.
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It does change that fact, because again - they’re forced to by law. There’s no wiggle room. Had they chosen to defy them and take them to court, Microsoft probably would have been forced to cease trading in the USA or something equally as company destroying.
Your data and email isn’t ever “safe” unless you’re hosting every single part of it yourself, and even then - if the government orders you to do something, you’ll fold like origami when faced with the alternative. Microsoft aren’t in the business of deciding who is and isn’t “tyrannical”. They are in the business of following legal orders and staying in business though.
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So they complied with a fascist regime to avoid fines and repercussions... They still complied with a fascist regime. Pretty bit thing if you ask me.
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I totally agree, and I just switched from Windows to Linux for my desktop, but this isn't on Microsoft - it's sanctions on the ICC by the fascist regime running the country where they (Microsoft) are based in support of the fascist regime destroying Gaza. (I know I'm probably over simplifying it, but that's my take on the article)
It's still preemptive compliance by Microsoft.
Trump loves this shit because if it blows up, he can just say "I never ordered this."
Yeah, the EU has been building out alternatives to American cloud companies like Microsoft for a while now, and it's coming in handy for some of them. I think France in particular are working on this and launched their own alternatives to Google Docs etc.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107225-france-germany-unveil-docs-collaborative-tool-rival-us.html
Hmm we may have for a long time considered alternatives to the American cloud and tools but we still are extremely reliant on it in all administrations in France. As I recall 70% of our online government services are on American clouds. We also are almost exclusively using Microsoft windows and office for the desktop workstations.
I'm pessimistic in the sense that Europe has tried to offer an European cloud before. It was a spectacular failure that just costs us a lot of money so that businesses here could just take the money and then pretend they couldn't make it work.
We definitely had a real shot in Europe to be sovereign. We just missed it. It's never too late but it's so prohibitively expensive to switch out of Microsoft ecosystem that many governments entities will rather fork out money to Microsoft.
Sure but this looks like Microsoft complying with sanctions. I was unaware sanctions were applied to the ICC, which is complete nonsense.