Microsoft’s collaboration with Israeli occupation forces raises concerns over the use of cloud technology in surveillance and warfare amid the genocide in Gaza.
Microsoft’s collaboration with Israeli occupation forces raises concerns over the use of cloud technology in surveillance and warfare amid the genocide in Gaza.
It will not.
This is an unprecedented use of computers and IT infrastructure in a wholistic and complete surveillance of a group of people for the purposes of ethnic cleansing, the evidence is undeniable.
What you mistake for a confidence this will all blow away is simply your bayesian future prediction mechanisms failing because again, this is an unprecedented act of violence in the realm of computers.
You meant to say that you cannot imagine this will keep growing as a scandal and engulf Microsoft because your imagination has not been supplied the necessary examples in reality to be convinced this eventuality could happen. You are simply restating the limitations of bayesian statistics in the context of this specific question. We can only forecast what has happened before, this has never happened before and the size and intensity of it will hit US culture and the IT industry in overbearing waves that last far longer than you or I can convince ourselves it will…
It is only after this scandal has run its course, over the years and years it will take to, that we will be able to say with any confidence whether a future scandal of this intensity, of using computers to murder people at a mass scale, is likely to be ignored by the public or not. This complicity in genocide is destined to become a horrid touchstone, talking about whether it will blow over or not in the immediate aftermath of the moment it happens is kind of missing the point. This is a historical moment.