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Yeah I think you’re right and honestly it’s hard to know what you’d do without being in that situation. I’d hope I’d refuse to rationalize it. I’d like to thi

Yeah I think you’re right and honestly it’s hard to know what you’d do without being in that situation. I’d hope I’d refuse to rationalize it. I’d like to think that, but few people actually get that kind of character test for real (and even fewer pass it when they do). As far as Zoom and the CCP, I think it’s reasonable to be upset with both. Zoom isn’t helpless, they have agency and could choose to do the right thing. The citizens they're suppressing though have a lot less agency. It’s easy to do the right thing when it costs you nothing, the real test is when it’s hard.

jcytong 6y ago
Yes it's hard so it's up to the consumer because we also have agency - to stop and say no to businesses like that. It's the CCP playbook. To entice western companies with its lucrative market and at the same time continue its totalitarian regime and oppression. It becomes harder and harder for these companies to "do the right thing" as its influence and market grows. It'll continue to feed the "China way" as simply an alternative to the democracy. At some point, it becomes so big that it's impossible to reverse course. The reality is that when other companies see that Zoom can get by, it'd be harder for them say no because looking the other way when the bully is around becomes the norm.