Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms « Palestine » or « Gaza » are getting temporarily blocked from being sent to recipients inside and outside the company. The No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA) protest group reports that « dozens of Microsoft workers » have been unable to send emails with the words « ‘Palestine, » « Gaza, » and « Genocide » in email subject lines or in the body of a message.
« Words like ‘Israel’ or ‘P4lestine’ do not trigger such a block, » says NOAA organizer Hossam Nasr. « NOAA believes this is an attempt by Microsoft to silence worker free speech and is a censorship enacted by Microsoft leadership to discriminate against Palestinian workers and their allies. »
Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes to reduce « politically focused emails » inside the company.
« Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. We have an established forum for employees who have opted in to political issues, » says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw in a statement to The Verge. « Over the past couple of days, a number of politically focused emails have been sent to tens of th …
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