Trump Retweets Call for Microsoft Ban From Federal Contracts

[47of74]

Source: Bloomberg

President Donald Trump retweeted a post from his former director of national intelligence that called for barring Microsoft Corp. from federal government contracts over its refusal to sell facial recognition software to U.S. police departments until there are laws governing use of the technology.

“They should now be barred from federal government contracts - there should be consequences for not selling technology to police departments,” Trump’s former Acting DNI Richard Grenell tweeted.

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Ok #BunkerBitch you go with that and watch your government grind to a halt.

Fucking idiot.

[leftieNanner]

1. Don't be silly 47of74!

Nobody in the government ever uses any Microsoft products, do they?

Word?
Excel?
Power Point?

Nah. Didn't think so.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Don't forget Teams, the newest thing I have to learn how to use. NT

[leftieNanner]

4. Well nobody's having any remote meetings now, are they?

Good luck.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. We have nothing but remote meetings. All of my coworkers are half my age or less.

They know how to do this stuff. I have to run at full speed just to stay in place. I don't know why they put up with me, but they're good -- and patient -- instructors.

Every day, I have to learn something new. It wouldn't be possible without my coworkers.

I'm lucky.

[Puppyjive]

16. I feel the same way

I hear you!

[Boomer]

18. Teams is annoying but not all that difficult

I'm 65 years old and Teams is now our company standard for all meetings and internal communications. I'm not a big fan of yet another freaking tool to learn, but it's been a smooth learning curve. You can do it, too!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Right. We're all going to switch to Macs.

Full disclosure: I've got Macs out the wazoo at home, but for years, computers at my $workplace have been one Dell after another, all loaded with the Microsoft Office Suite.

[ace3csusm]

5. All their PC run Windows OS

Do they have another OS they can use...idiots ...

[Best_man23]

10. Sure they do

Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, and other distros can run on all the government PC gear currently running Windows.

Issues would be the learning curve for all the federal employees using and working as sys admins, plus finding Linux equivalents to third party applications outside of Office, or paying $$$ to have them recoded to run in Linux.

There are OS options outside of Apple. However, I think that request by Lysol Von Clusterfuck will fall on deaf ears.

[ace3csusm]

14. $$$ will now be needed to retrain employees to use ...

plus learning curve time...

[47of74]

19. Lysol Von Clusterfuck

Thanks - adding that name to the rotation along with the Giant Orange Fuckopotomus and #BunkerBitch.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Oh oh...so now rump will go to the Chinese (via Jared) and pick up their versions of facial techno-

logy. And of course, where's Rand Paul in all of this? He's against such technologies (I last thought) being used to spy on Americans, etc. Where is he? Or did he crawl into the bunker w/ bunker boy too, to avoid getting beat up by his neighbor?

[TheFourthMind]

8. From the Trump Administration's Dicktionarry...

Intelligence [ ig-ner-uh?ns ]

noun
the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.

WORDS RELATED TO INTELLIGENCE
disregard, illiteracy, bewilderment, insensitivity, incapacity, darkness, unconsciousness, rawness, fog, unawareness, simplicity, innocence, vagueness, blindness, unfamiliarity, nescience, oblivion, dumbness, philistinism, sciolism

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Maybe Putin can provide such technology.

[Zorro]

11. This might be something Bezos would agree with Trump about

[mwooldri]

12. I understand our warships run some form of Microsoft Operating System.

I don't know which version but the US military uses Microsoft technology.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. "until there are laws governing use of the technology" - not exactly onerous

Hell, it could be ass-covering by Microsoft in case of litigation as much as an actual concern for civil rights.

[LogicFirst]

15. Only 7 more months of this man

[cojoel]

17. Then I wonder who would get the JEDI Cloud contract?

He already (illegally) excluded Amazon Web Services and the only other qualifying bid was from Microsoft Azure. Amazon has protested the award to Microsoft and it is probably not going to resolve soon. Excluding Microsoft would leave no qualified bidders remaining.

[disndat]

20. Richard Grenfell

ordered this. Amazon also is banning face recognition technology to police. A non-starter.
Grenfell needs to be better informed.

[milestogo]

21. Does he think Bill Gates is still CEO?