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>2) Venezuela doesn't have a huge market where Google is blocked by a nation-wide firewall. How is that a justification?
by pretendscholar 8y ago
>2) Venezuela doesn't have a huge market where Google is blocked by a nation-wide firewall.
How is that a justification?
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- bun_at_work 8y agoI'm not trying to justify anything, exactly. I'm pointing out that oversimplifying the situation is not helpful. However, they are different in this case because Venezuela's market isn't large enough that Google feels the need to bend to the will of the government there to be competitive in the world's market. Therefore, they can afford, on a competitive level, to stand against censorship in Venezuela, where doing the same thing in China costs them a huge amount of money. Which is their motivator, as they are a corporation.