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It confounds me that people who are not natively Chinese, or have never lived there, or ever used the existing search infrastructure (ex: Baidu) make sweeping c
by fizwhiz 8y ago
It confounds me that people who are not natively Chinese, or have never lived there, or ever used the existing search infrastructure (ex: Baidu) make sweeping claims with such confidence that they truly know what's best for Chinese people.
- hueving 8y agoYou don't have to directly suffer from genocide to know genocide is bad.
- fizwhiz 8y agoPlease unpack for me how opening up Google Search in China precipitates genocide.
- int_19h 8y agoIt does so by censoring information about what's going on in Tibet and Xinjiang, for example.
- fizwhiz 8y agoIt causes genocide? Or it doesn't help prevent it? Those are 2 different things. It's unclear to me how Google's absence from the Chinese market actually ameliorates your concerns regarding Tibet.
- int_19h 8y agoIt doesn't ameliorate them, because it will be censored anyway. But when Google goes there and does the censorship, they are complicit in covering up that genocide. And yes, that makes a difference - ethics isn't about pure utilitarianism, at least not for most people.