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It leads to balkanization -- see Google's total withdrawal from China. As a consumer, I recently selected a new device in large part because its cloud-affiliat
by ISL 2y ago
It leads to balkanization -- see Google's total withdrawal from China.
As a consumer, I recently selected a new device in large part because its cloud-affiliated software (and bespoke operating system) was written, stored, and administered in countries with appropriate and ethical legal frameworks. The competition was more feature-complete, but I concluded that I couldn't trust any of those options.
- alsetmusic 2y agoSeems more and more that to lead a completely ethical existence means sacrificing luxury, happiness, and time. Or surrender to willful ignorance.
- lostlogin 2y ago> to lead a completely ethical existence means sacrificing luxury, happiness, and time Hasn’t this always been true? It’s also getting increasingly easy to buy things that meet ethical standards (or more cynically, it’s easier to buy things that meet some low bar that someone setup).
- fsckboy 2y ago> It leads to balkanization -- see Google's total withdrawal from China. True balkanization does not occur in Italy, except Trieste and perhaps parts of Friuli-Venezia Giulia... and I put that in Italics!