> Regulations are why Microsoft is banning users who call Gaza.

That sounds an awful lot like simply being a Palestinian is being criminalized.

The Israeli government position seems to be that any Palestinian may be deemed a combatant, which is even worse.

>The real solution here is to use Signal (or something like it).

The article discusses that they are unable to contact their family over the internet because Israel is shutting off internet. So they were using Skypes Skype to Phone service to call their family's mobile phones over normal cell service in Gaza.

Interesting, I missed that. I wonder if there is a version of that service that isn't managed by Microsoft.

> I assume they're doing the best they can.

I think you mean “they’re doing the absolute minimum to barely meet their compliance requirements”

> Regulations are why Microsoft is banning users who call Gaza

I shall have to add this to the list of counterexamples wherever anyone says "America has an inalienable right to free speech".

I don’t think that’s the real solution.

To be able to come up with a solution you’d first need to be aware of a problem, which in many such cases you wouldn’t be, until one day you are banned and lose all your accounts, and solutions in hindsight won’t help with that.