> People literally get gulled into spending their life's saving because of Baidu's fake ads. Then try this, in order of ascending difficulty: make link lists a

> People literally get gulled into spending their life's saving because of Baidu's fake ads. Then try this, in order of ascending difficulty: make link lists and web rings, make search engines, organize for consumer protection, actually demand the concentration camps be closed, for starters. You can't appeal to humanity, "mercy for the non-dissidents", while ignoring the dissidents as out of scope and irrelevant. That's like telling someone they should stop snoring while you are operating machinery at 500dB or something. You can't impress me by saying this person who burned 23089234 dollars needs my 50 cents or they will starve. And that's besides the point anway. It's not about the wellbeing of Chinese non-dissidents, it's about the potential complicity of companies in countries which so far are not totalitarian. I'm not going to feed someone who is starving if it means I wipe my whole intellectual heritage with some virus I bring home. To even bring up a sub-optimal search engine as something that could ever matter in such a context is staggering. > Just like giving African famine victims some amount of food is morally noble That "victim" is in turn currently brutalizing (and/or complicit with the brutalization of) someone else who is both starving and being brutalized. The only condition for "giving them food" is to stop with that, something they should have done already anyway. But even now, the actions show that the brutalization and/or the looking away is more important to even themselves than the "food". The appeal to compassion to normalize being not compassionate does not work. If you can't have sympathy for someone kidnapped or murdered for pissing off the wrong corrupt henchman, then don't talk about ads mixed with search results like some super tragic thing. Comparing the results of what humans are doing (or fail to do), with a famine, which basically just "happens", that is also duly noted, and fully rejected. At this point, I think I could make a totalitarianism rationalization bingo card.