> but simply writing off their effort seems unfair. Their efforts seem obviously futile, and open up the risk that the Chinese government will use it's new lev

> but simply writing off their effort seems unfair. Their efforts seem obviously futile, and open up the risk that the Chinese government will use it's new leverage over them to get them to to bad things. For instance, Yahoo once handed over the emails of two Chinese pro-democracy journalists [1], resulting in them getting 10 year prison sentences in China. Once Google is getting revenue from China, it will be a lot harder for them to say no such demands, especially ones they can comply with in secret. [1] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3862513&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3862513&page=1