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Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests
(www.theverge.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Devil's Advocate... I mean... they don't work for like a newspaper or a government agency.
Unless there are those who need certain words for their jobs, I can kinda understand why Microsoft wouldn't want emails from work addresses to go out with political agendas... for either side.
Work emails should just be about work. Too many people use their work emails like a personal email... with their banking, shopping, etc. That's what personal email addresses are for.
This policy should go for many non-work related topics too. IT can unblock the words for certain users who need to use them for their job.
Being against your work supporting genocide seems pretty work-related to me. At best, it'll just destroy their company culture (not that I'm convinced it's good to start with). Optimistically, I hope everyone who's hard to replace quits and finds a better job somewhere that cares about more than infinite financial growth.