NOAA believes this is an attempt by Microsoft to silence worker free speech
Not shilling for Microsoft here, but just reminding everyone that that's not how free speech works.
I'm all for those employees using their collective might through strikes or departures to get Microsoft to cave on this issue, but saying this violates employees freedom of speech is the exact same argument my racist uncle used when he got banned off Facebook.
Unionize and get it in your collective bargaining agreements, otherwise you have no free speech when it comes to your place of employment.
My point wasn't to equivocate those two things, my point is free speech applies to censorship from the government.
By all means everyone should feel free to boycott Microsoft for taking a pro-genocide stance, but that's their stance to take as a company.
Microsoft is in the wrong here, but no one's right to free speech was violated.