{"id":36036,"date":"2020-01-15T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36036"},"modified":"2020-01-15T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:53:04","slug":"microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-criticizes-indias-discriminatory-caa-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36036","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticizes India&rsquo;s discriminatory CAA law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2014\/01\/Nadella2_crop-730x401.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"401\">Update( 14 -0 1-2020 11:10 am IST ): BuzzFeed News reporter Pranav Dixit noted in a tweet that Microsoft has published a watered-down statement detailing Nadella&rsquo;s stance on India&rsquo;s CAA legislation, after the store published its part with the CEO&rsquo;s quote to editor-in-chief Ben Smith. This highlights the unwillingness of companies to take a stance on political issues concerning the countries in which they do business. It&rsquo;s rare for CEOs of tech companies to take a stance on political issues, especially when they aren&rsquo;t directly affected. Satya Nadella bucked the trend today, as he blamed India&rsquo;s controversial Citizen Amendment Act( CAA) that eliminates Muslim refugees &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/in\/2020\/01\/14\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-criticizes-indias-discriminatory-caa-law\/?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next WebOr just speak more coverage about: <a href='https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/company\/microsoft\/'>Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/in\/2020\/01\/14\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-criticizes-indias-discriminatory-caa-law\/\">thenextweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update( 14 -0 1-2020 11:10 am IST ): BuzzFeed News reporter Pranav Dixit noted in a tweet that Microsoft has published a watered-down statement detailing Nadella&rsquo;s stance on India&rsquo;s CAA legislation, after the store published its part with the CEO&rsquo;s quote to editor-in-chief Ben Smith. This highlights the unwillingness of companies to take a stance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[880],"class_list":["post-36036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-india"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/tnw1579081985.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}