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China presents a huge opportunity for growth to the NBA, and this is a really crucial period for them as it seems like the NFL's stranglehold might be weakening

by fhood 7y ago

China presents a huge opportunity for growth to the NBA, and this is a really crucial period for them as it seems like the NFL's stranglehold might be weakening and extra money to reinvest might help that process. I don't understand how people can act like losing the Chinese market is some sort of trivial decision?!? I would love for the NBA to stand up to China on this issue, but it IS NOT AN EASY OR OBVIOUS DECISION.

NotSammyHagar 7y ago
Money or surrender to evil. It's pretty simple.
- Ygg2 7y ago
  Seeing how we live in capitalism - money it is. Remember when Google, promised it wouldn't kowtow to China? Then kowtowed anyway.
  - cromwellian 7y ago
    It was stopped by the employees tho.
  - bduerst 7y ago
    Except they didn't. Project Dragonfly was cancelled after Google employees rebelled against it. A better example would be how Apple quietly shared iCloud user data with the Chinese government.
- est 7y ago
  money is evil. It's either evil or two evils.
  - mensetmanusman 7y ago
    Money is not evil, the love of money is.
diveanon 7y ago
Its a binary choice. You either stand against tyranny, or support it. There is no middle ground, and this needs to be made clear to every company that is faced with this decision.
Invictus0 7y ago
Replace China with Nazi Germany and re-read your comment. The Chinese are putting Uighurs in concentration camps to destroy their culture (genocide) and harvest their organs.
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- angry_octet 7y ago
  To be fair, we only know about organs being harvested from people being executed in the normal criminal courts (with a 99% conviction rate, but still). As yet we have no public numbers on the kill rate of Uighurs, they are quite possibly just doing brutal re-education, old-school Cultural Revolution style.
magashna 7y ago
Easy morally, hard economically.
wcr3 7y ago
the two possible decisions here are both extremely easy/obvious, regardless of your p.o.v. -- which one you choose depends only on whether or not you view money as the ultimate good.

by fhood 7y ago

NotSammyHagar 7y ago

Money or surrender to evil. It's pretty simple.

Ygg2 7y ago
Seeing how we live in capitalism - money it is. Remember when Google, promised it wouldn't kowtow to China? Then kowtowed anyway.
- cromwellian 7y ago
  It was stopped by the employees tho.
- bduerst 7y ago
  Except they didn't. Project Dragonfly was cancelled after Google employees rebelled against it. A better example would be how Apple quietly shared iCloud user data with the Chinese government.
est 7y ago
money is evil. It's either evil or two evils.
- mensetmanusman 7y ago
  Money is not evil, the love of money is.

diveanon 7y ago

Its a binary choice. You either stand against tyranny, or support it. There is no middle ground, and this needs to be made clear to every company that is faced with this decision.

Invictus0 7y ago

Replace China with Nazi Germany and re-read your comment. The Chinese are putting Uighurs in concentration camps to destroy their culture (genocide) and harvest their organs.

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angry_octet 7y ago
To be fair, we only know about organs being harvested from people being executed in the normal criminal courts (with a 99% conviction rate, but still). As yet we have no public numbers on the kill rate of Uighurs, they are quite possibly just doing brutal re-education, old-school Cultural Revolution style.

magashna 7y ago

Easy morally, hard economically.

wcr3 7y ago

the two possible decisions here are both extremely easy/obvious, regardless of your p.o.v. -- which one you choose depends only on whether or not you view money as the ultimate good.