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Yes, absolutely.


I admire the consistency, but the ammount of posts I see along the lines of "we won't hire Australians anymore" and the absence of posts like "we'll be adding Australia to the list of countries we don't hire from" doesn't fill me with confidence that this is common.

Even before this change plenty of Chinese nationals would likely be employed wherever they were storing data in Australia and MS didn't care about that. I'm not aware of any MS ban on hiring Chinese either. So they were presumably fine with the threat of Chinese nationals inserting back doors, but it's a problem now because it's Australians.


The difference is that if a Chinese person does something for a Chinese intelligence agency they go to jail.

If someone sabotages a company after being instructed to do so by a Australian agency they are carrying out a lawful order.

Big difference IMO.


I don't think MS really hires many chinese nationals. There certainly aren't nearly as many chinese nationals at MS compared to facebook and uber




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