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And, Microsoft even follows China’s censorship rules. Employees of tech companies protest when their companies collaborate with defense departments. But, yet t
by afpx 8y ago
And, Microsoft even follows China’s censorship rules.
Employees of tech companies protest when their companies collaborate with defense departments. But, yet those employees aren’t very loud when it comes to censorship.
- tubbs 8y agoSome counter points from Google: http://time.com/5370059/china-google-protest-censorship/ http://time.com/5370059/china-google-protest-censorship/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117400/google-china-petitions-dragonfly-sundar-pichai https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117400/google-china-pe... https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/27/employees-petition-google-to-stop-work-on-censored-chinese-search-engine-dragonfly/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/27/employees-petition-...
- afpx 8y agoVery good! Thanks for educating me.
- dep_b 8y agoMicrosoft never promised to be a world-healing company.
- viivaux 8y agoQuick tip: when people give out about a massive company (one with a real influence on the world, mind you) doing something they feel isn't right, that's :not the same thing: as assuming the company has a moral duty to heal the world.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 8y agoSo Google's fault is that they try to?
- pgc 8y agoBecause those employees who protest, which are a minority, are communists, just like China is.
- blattimwind 8y agoThe popular counterpant to "Everyone I don't like is Hitler": "Everyone I don't like is a communist". The 50s have called and want their witchhunt back.
- paradoxparalax 8y agoI will order a T-Shirt with these 2 sentences.the times we live. by blattimwind. I will give the credit(in smaller fonts, sure) maybe change/replace the "I don't like" by "stupid" or "dumb" or "brainwashed" Is fun. But when you make fun of Nazism, and you equate the negation of humanity, you make more harm then fun. Actually you make big harm for the world. But Who cares 'bout freaking world, I will make my t-shirt. humor was ruled by some supreme court as free to scorch anyone in any manner, if, and only if, made in form of charge. So I may need some drawing on it. Yeah but is true, some people are afraid of communism as like it was Aliens from Evil planet, others are afraid of Political Incorrectness as if was the Hydra of Lerna[1], so...each to their own.I upvote this blattimwind comment above, and I never vote, is against my principles, up or down, left or right. But this was a good one and is exception. 1-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
- x220 8y agoIn 2019 people just don't care as much about censorship or freedom of speech as they used to. Not saying it's right, but that's the way most people think now. I can't remember how many times I've had conversations with people who genuinely had no idea why censorship is a bad idea or why listening to opposing ideas can improve your life.
- raxxorrax 8y agoNormal case of average stupidity until something bad happens again, I would smugly guess.