[nollbit]

”Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them?”

If a company implicitly assists in putting little children in camps, then yes, it’s ok to “punish” them by not giving them your business.

“Just like one may dislike in-laws while loving a spouse. You don't have to divorce your spouse to prove your dislike of the inlaws”

Similarly, if my in-laws were racists and my wife didn’t think that there were anything wrong with that, then yes, divorce would be an option.

[chrisco255]

Except they didn't. What's the more likely story: that Microsoft entered a multi-year contract with the US government and policies around the border recently changed or that Microsoft was complicit in US government policy and therefore responsible for all of their actions by association? Such a flat way of looking at the three dimensional, shades-of-grey world we live in...