The people can live without your search engine, because there are other ways to find content. It's hard enough to mount resistance against a repressive regime

The people can live without your search engine, because there are other ways to find content. It's hard enough to mount resistance against a repressive regime when it is blanketed with propaganda. When companies like Google and Apple operate in those nations, they help legitimize and normalize that regime, confirming all the propaganda. After all, the Google brand didn't come from the regime, they are a foreign firm that decided it was ethical to do business there.