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A quiet but deeply unsettling moment just shook the foundations of international justice, proving why Europe needs digital sovereignty - and most Europeans not too interested in tech likely missed it: The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a court based in The Hague and central to Europeโ€™s upholding of human rights, suddenly found that his email account was shut down. The service provider? Microsoft. The reason? Mr. Trump.....

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[โ€“] b_tr3e@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Seems the ICC could use a bit of technical competence, too. Why the fuck didn't they set up their own MX instead of relying on MS' shitty mail service? It's not the first time something like that is happening and besides all politics Microsoft's MX' have proven to be unreliable countless times before, Extendend downtimes, lost accounts, blocks by antispam lists, etc.

[โ€“] huppakee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Convincing marketing/lobbying maybe

[โ€“] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

And the ease of hiring people who have experience with Microsoft clients compared with the ease of hiring people that can set up an open source version

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