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Neither did I defend anybody (not any company, not any government) nor did I attack any company in particular. Your responses remind me of Sarah Palin. When po
by joubert 17y ago
Neither did I defend anybody (not any company, not any government) nor did I attack any company in particular.
Your responses remind me of Sarah Palin. When posed with a statement or question, dodging it an go off on a tangent.
I'm merely saying that it is (universally) wrong to supply someone who you know oppresses others, with the tools to do so.
- BrentRitterbeck 17y agoI responded to your statement with a very valid argument. (1) It's business in a huge market that American companies are not forbidden to do business with. (2) You are implying that Microsoft should not do business with China, and I believe that would be more detrimental than doing business with the country. I believe you are falling into the fallacy of punishing an entire nation for the actions of its government somehow makes that country better off. Turning it back to Google, I have friends from China who are pissed that Google is threatening to leave. You're not seeing the bigger picture. Google's threat to leave doesn't help China. It hurts the country, all 1.2 billion people. You decided to bring politics into this, so now politics have been brought into this.