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I have no pacifist objections to Google partnering with the Pentagon, I just don't think it's very smart for what amounts to be an information platform to be op
by hugh4life 8y ago
I have no pacifist objections to Google partnering with the Pentagon, I just don't think it's very smart for what amounts to be an information platform to be opening itself too easily to accusations of bias(even though everyone would know it's there anyway).
One scenario I would plan for if I were Google is if with the emergence of webassembly that an open source browser-based mobile OS like Firefox OS might become more viable. I could definitely see some nations(I.E. Russia and China... but I could see South Korea's phone manufacturers being in favor... and many EU nations too if it were open source) being very uneasy with a US Corporation that is a pentagon contractor whose government already threatened to withhold android software to ZTE. With getting close to the Pentagon and after the ZTE threat, it will be harder to make a fuss if Russia and China were to outright ban Android.