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0 pointscryoshon7y ago0 comments

taking initiative to participate in maintaining a malicious status quo is being malicious. google isn't being coerced here, they're volunteering to help with oppression.

put differently:

what do you call an accountant who sings up to perpetuate the status quo of a criminal enterprise by updating their books?

guilty.

but they were "just extending the services of accounting to a new organization while maintaining the status quo of criminality".

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billfruit7y ago· 2 in thread

US and Canada sell weapons and military equipment to Saudi Arabia. Sufficient moral outrage is hardly bandied about in the case of such deals.

cryoshonOP7y ago

actually there is an abundance of moral outrage with regard to these deals. it doesn't make the press. i'll give you one guess why.

int_19h7y ago

If another country wanted to sanction US for this reason, I'd be supportive of that, as an American resident.

Aunche7y ago

> what do you call an accountant who sings up to perpetuate the status quo of a criminal enterprise by updating their books?

The difference is that the accountant is necessary for the criminal enterprise. Google isn't necessary for a censorship state, since China more than capable of handling that on their own. A closer analogy is that Google is the line cook of the restaurant the mafia hangs out in.

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