Terrible argument. Surely for every influential decision one can find somebody who was influenced negatively, especially if one wants to go deeply enough in hyp

Terrible argument. Surely for every influential decision one can find somebody who was influenced negatively, especially if one wants to go deeply enough in hypotheticals. The question is not whether having competition between search engines is good (we know it is), it is whether Google should participate in a sham competition controlled by Chinese government, on conditions set by them and under their supervision, and thus participate - directly or indirectly - in many atrocities this government perpetrates. Serving better ads sounds like a pretty weak case for this - especially as we can't even be sure it would be the case at all (it's not like Google never served ads from shady providers).