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Re:Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, L... by wu-ikkyu on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @11:46AM (#17663575)
>hyper-moralising over google's business decisions

People are hyper moralizing because Google is hyper powerful.

"With great power comes great responsibility".

>google employees' attempts to sabotage the company's business prospects.

Perhaps they are doing so because they see these as attemts to sabotage Google's mission:

"To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

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Re:Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, L... by ionised on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:20AM (#17670879)
> "With great power comes great responsibility".

Remember this is HN. That saying has been warped to read:

"With great power comes great piles of cash"

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Re:Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, L... by tanilama on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @03:22PM (#17666034)
It is because Google put that hyper moralising hat on itself.

In their hay days, they crafted that hippy/liberal/sensible young alpha image to win customer approval, reducing government regulation and eat market shares against those faceless corporates.

Now they are the new baddies in town, the image no longer does them any good. They will retire it by then and be a normal company.

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Re:Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, L... by pnw_hazor on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:37PM (#17672865)
No, they will concentrate their hyper-moralising and virtue signalling on the US.

China, et al, will get a pass.

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