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The political battle against Pichai made a success. So now the public support can be tuned down and Google can move on to do the only thing they could do in the
by erikb 8y ago
The political battle against Pichai made a success. So now the public support can be tuned down and Google can move on to do the only thing they could do in their current situation: building tools for the chinese gov to enter the market. They'll probably do the same thing behind closed doors and without the public Google label on the final result. Maybe baidu will suddenly provide better search results or something.
That's how this world works, and it's not like they really have a choice in that matter.
- ineedasername 8y agoI think Google does have choice, they could forego revenue when it's knowingly generated by efforts to censor and oppress people. "how this world works" absolutely includes people & companies that betray their ideals for money, but there are those that stick to their principals too [0],[1] [0] https://moxie.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/ https://moxie.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292327