> If all of them refuse to help implement your new internet censorship regime Then you fire all of them and hire new ones with different values. The reason it

> If all of them refuse to help implement your new internet censorship regime Then you fire all of them and hire new ones with different values. The reason it's a problem if your police force stops following orders is the same as if the military stops taking orders: there's a command and control structure that can operate autonomously and topple your government. It's a little bit unrealistic to think of all the network engineers in HK somehow overturning government policy by refusing to act. They have no collective power because they have no collective structure outside of the companies they work for. The most they can do is sabotage or blow the whistle, and ultimately if there is no political will to go against the status quo then all this will eventually prove futile anyway. I hope you teach them also that there's no avoiding politics, and there's no avoiding ethical responsibility for doing nothing even when nothing you can do seems to have a chance.