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[โ€“] [email protected] 94 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Holy shit that's bad. That's also confirming what we knew about using centralised services, they can and will target you as a person, if they are given the order.

That's really bad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

At least it's email, it's relatively easy to adjust your DNS and move to a different provider. But it is pretty insane that the US govt is willing to weaponize the country's leading businesses against its allies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well it's much worse than that, it's personalised sanctions on the personal account of the head of a supranational organisation (whose authority is not recognised by the US), from a private business, at the order of the president of the United States (or anyone in this shit administration, it's doesn't really matter at this point).

That's a seriously fucked up precedent to make, on so many levels.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not if you are a court or any form of government entity. You have to have meticulous documentation about everything that goes on in there or risk cases overturned on that basis. It might also be an attempt to discredit the court by planting or illegally searching the email account. This should launch an investigation into the united states, which turns them into a criminal state, trump as a person and microsoft needs to become illegal in every country under the iccs influence.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel the people working at icc currently have other fish to fry first. They are not like UN part of diplomatic relations but are tasked with investing (war)crimes already commited. I sincerely hope they have their priorities straight and focus on Sudan, Myanmar and Gaza first. Maybe Ukraine Xinjiang next, I don't know what should be a priority but not US. I mean what US is doing is really bad, and maybe the matter of the deportations, the treatment of trans people and all the misogyny will eventually be something to handle in the ICC but for now I hope this 'just' sends a message to the countries connected to the ICC and they go fix shit without burdening the ICC itself with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I sincerely hope they have their priorities straight and focus on Sudan, Myanmar and Gaza first.

They are, that's why the US has sanctioned them, hindering the investigations into what's happening in Sudan, etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, it depends, right? If its an outlook email, he is fucked. I assume its a custom email, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sending and receiving email is one thing, but accessing data that is on Microsoft servers is another. Hope they made an external back-up in time (would be surprised if they didn't, but still).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah, no doubt. Whichever way you paint it, this is really serious.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, that's hardly a confirmation. The US has always used its power like this with its enemies, just ask Iran Cuba or Russia how they're doing on international trade.

The new development is that all of Europe is now classified as an enemy, yet we're fully incapable of not sucking on Amazon and MSFT's teat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's different though, a sovereign country using its power to sanction another sovereign country is one thing.
A country using its power to sanction a single person, not even a citizen, with a position like he has, for his work on a body whose authority is not recognised by the country, and all that through a corporation, at the order of the current administration is definitely another thing. It sounds very new and very dangerous to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's routine as well. Plenty of Russian oligarchs are personally sanctioned in that way. Not that I'm saying ICC prosecutor and Russian oligarch are remotely comparable targets, but the method isn't new. The shocking thing is who the US is now targeting.