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What's the difference between Google adopting Chinese regulations in China and Google adopting GDPR regulations in Europe?
by miguelrochefort 8y ago
What's the difference between Google adopting Chinese regulations in China and Google adopting GDPR regulations in Europe?
- dsr_ 8y agoWhen a company does something good for human rights and civilization, we say "Good." When they do something bad for human rights and civilization, we say "Bad." What's the deal with pretending that laws are ethically neutral?
- miguelrochefort 8y agoIs Google doing something bad for human rights and civilization?
- kerng 8y agoI'm not sure if that is a serious question or just a sarcastic comment?
- kodablah 8y agoI'm anti-GDPR and even I see that as a poor equivalence. The difference? Morality, so maybe to you there's no difference but to others it's obvious. The implementation difference, EU hasn't started large-scale blocking of sites that violate its laws (yet).
- miguelrochefort 8y agoChina does what it thinks is best for itself. The compromise is crippling of free speech. I don't like that. Europe does what it thinks is best for itself. The compromise is crippling of innovation. I don't like that. Are they doing the right thing? I don't think so. Is it legitimate for them to do so? Probably. Personally, I believe the best solution is to break the rule. Ignore all regulations (hate speech, GDPR, copyrights, patents, net neutrality, China's firewall) and make it easy for people to do the same thing. They won't be able to enforce their unreasonable regulations, and they'll have to repeal them. That's what I intend to do.
- realusername 8y agoIs that sarcasm? GDPR is a law benefiting users against corporations, China is an authoritarian dictatorship censoring their local internet...
- zavi 8y agoGDPR doesn't force Google to censor search results. Right to Be Forgotten does though. Just replace one with another and your argument becomes valid.