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3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.::The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Snapchat and X, definitely. But microsoft is unavoidable for work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

True, my it department has told me no Linux or libreoffice. One of the it guys wasn’t happy about that rule either

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But microsoft is unavoidable for work.

I've worked in fintech almost 10 years and don't recall a single windows machine, let alone a single piece of necessary windows service. Even the sales and marketing people use macs at least

Google and AWS are much harder to with without.

E: also just to note you can personallyboycott tech you're forced to use by work, and even comparing about the company's ethics at work