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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 op
by cryoshon 8y ago
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".
- Aunche 8y 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.
- billfruit 8y agoUS and Canada sell weapons and military equipment to Saudi Arabia. Sufficient moral outrage is hardly bandied about in the case of such deals.