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Discussions tagged with activism on WindowsForum.com cover a range of political and social movements, including employee protests over Microsoft Azure's alleged use by Israel's Unit 8200 for processing Palestinian data, grassroots efforts influencing GOP retirements, gun control marches on the NRA headquarters, and online knitting communities opposing white supremacy. These threads reflect user engagement with contemporary activism topics, often shared via YouTube videos and news reports, highlighting debates on corporate ethics, legislative change, and grassroots organizing.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Azure under scrutiny: Israel data, external review and cloud ethics

    Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
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    • accountability activism ai ai ethics brad smith campus civil rights cloud computing cloud contracts cloud ethics cloud governance cloud security cloud solutions cmk confidential computing contractgovernance corporate accountability corporate ethics corporate governance corporate policy covington burling data residency data security data sovereignty dual-use surveillance dual-use technology employee activism enterprise esg esg risk ethics external review financial risk firing forensicaudit forensics gaza conflict governance governance and audit governance risk government contracts guardian-reporting human rights independent audit insider risk international law investor activism investor pressure israel israel defense ministry israel palestine israeli military israeli military contracts journalism microsoft microsoft azure military intelligence military surveillance national security no azure for apartheid on-campus-protest on-premises on-premises deployments on-site protests palestine palestinian surveillance palestinians policy privacy privacy ethics procurement procurement risk project nimbus protestnews protests redmond redmond campus regulatory compliance regulatory risk regulatory scrutiny reputation risk responsible ai security security services sit-in sovereign cloud sovereign deployments sovereignty surveillance surveillance allegations tech activism tech employment tech ethics tech governance tech journalism tech regulation telemetry transparency un human rights council unit 8200 vendor risk vendor visibility whistleblower workplace safety
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  2. whoosh

    VIDEO DANGER: We Are NUMB to Trump's Lawlessness

    🇺🇸 :eek:
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    • activism politics trump lawlessness youtube video
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  3. whoosh

    VIDEO Online Knitters Stand Up To White Supremacy

    🇺🇸 :p
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    • activism anti racism knitting activism white supremacy
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  4. whoosh

    VIDEO GOP Retirements Pushed By Grassroots Activists Widened 2018 Field | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

    :usa::razz:
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    • 2018 elections activism gop retirements rachel maddow
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  5. whoosh

    VIDEO Watch "Anti-gun activists march on NRA headquarters in Virginia" on YouTube

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    • activism gun politics news video nra virginia march
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  6. whoosh

    VIDEO Watch "Parkland dad: Not talking is not legislation" on YouTube

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    • activism gun control parkland shooting youtube video
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  7. whoosh

    VIDEO David Hogg: You can hear the people in power shaking

    :usa::up:
  8. whoosh

    VIDEO ‘We have to stand up and say we don’t want to take this anymore’ | AM Joy | MSNBC

    :usa::up:
  9. whoosh

    VIDEO Conservative Boot Camps Emerge All Over America

    :usa::andwhat:
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    • activism boot camps conservative movement politics
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  10. whoosh

    VIDEO Psychologists March In NYC To Highlight Trump’s Declining Mental Abilities

    :usa::up:
  11. whoosh

    VIDEO Actions Will Speak Louder Than Words On Medicare For All

    :usa::andwhat: Some expletives :eek:
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    • activism advocacy healthcare reform medicare for all
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  12. Ralph Bromley

    Boycott Firefox

    I know this may a sort of political post here and I know such discussions are discouraged but hear me out. Recently Mozilla has gotten a new CEO that is against gay rights and as an advocate for gay rights this is not acceptable. In protest I removed all mozilla products on my computer as it has...
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    • activism advocacy boycott browser ceo community debate discrimination equality firefox gay rights human rights iceweasel moderation mozilla political issues protests social justice support technology
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  13. Mike

    VIDEO Ron Paul Interviews Lavabit Owner on NSA E-Mail Controversy

    Exclusive Ron Paul interview with Lavabit Ladar Levison discusses the implications of National Security Letters and NSA surveillance Lavabit is an email service founded in 2004 that suspended operations in August 2013. It is owned and operated by Ladar Levison. Lavabit was founded by...
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    • activism civil liberties constitution court edward snowden email email service encryption gag order internet freedom lavabit national security nsa privacy ron paul security best practices surveillance technology whistleblower
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    • Forum: Windows Security
  14. whoosh

    VIDEO SOPA Blackout Angers Fmr Senator Turned Lobbyist Dodd

    :p
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    • activism censorship dodd lobbying sopa blackout
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  15. Highwayman

    VIDEO Sopa Whistleblown Big Time

    This pretty much whistleblows the whole SOPA bullcrap
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    • activism censorship digital freedom internet legislation media sopa whistleblower youtube video
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  16. reghakr

    'Video vigilante' turns lens on Okla. prostitution

    OKLAHOMA CITY — For a man who surprises prostitutes and their customers with a video camera to announce, "You're busted, buddy," Brian Bates is remarkably unscathed. Read Full Story: Link Removed
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    • activism awareness bates community controversy crime documentary ethics justice law enforcement oklahoma police prostitution rights social issues society street surveillance video vigilante
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  17. Mike

    Occupy Wall Street protests now nationwide in the USA

    The following map shows locations of protests occurring throughout the United States. As you can see, the map is pretty full: Map: Occupy Wall Street Spreads Nationwide (Updated) | Mother Jones A quick analysis of what is going on could show a 'paradigm shift' in current events. Usually most...
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    • activism civil disobedience currency devaluation dollar financial crisis government great depression historical context nationwide occupy wall street paradigm shift politics populist movement protests public awareness reserve currency social movements triffin dilemma vietnam era workshops
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  18. reghakr

    LulzSec teams up with Anonymous for Operation AntiSec

    Over the weekend, LulzSec has seemingly finally moved away from being in it "for the lulz" and has acquired a cause: it has announced it has teamed up with Anonymous and other "affiliated battleships" and that it is launching "Operation Anti-Security". Now this is getting really serious...
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    • activism anonymous antisec battleships collective cybersecurity hacking lulzsec online operations security
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  19. whoosh

    Could Fukushima provide catalyst for Japanese youth to reach criticality?

    TOKYO — Calls to protest bring thousands, the conventional press is shunned and rogue academics suddenly find people are willing to listen—it would be going too far to say Japan was joining the “Arab Spring,” but the nuclear crisis has shown there are limits to youth apathy in this country...
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    • activism fukushima japanese youth social mobility
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  20. cybercore

    Naked Ambition: How PETA's Strategy of Nearly Nude Protesting Pays Off

    Link Removed - Invalid URL The letters P-E-T-A stand for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals," but you're forgiven if you thought they stood for "Publicity Events involving T and A." After all, it seems every time there's a slow news day, PETA is there to take up the slack by...
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    • activism animal rights awareness campaign demonstration environmental ethics health lifestyle media nudity peta protests public events public relations publicity statistics veganism water conservation
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler