US companies giving in to pressure from China

Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by Afforess on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:17PM (#17709105)

Uh, morals? What does ethics have to do with Google operating their search business in China?

I'm confused why I am supposed to be outraged. I don't have any particularly strong feelings about censorship in foreign countries - how does what the Chinese government do affect American speech? I guess censorship in general is _bad_, but it's purely an internal, domestic matter. The Chinese aren't scrubbing American textbooks of the historical record. Really, I think I've only noticed China's influence in cinema; I see more Asian lead roles in Hollywood films, but this seems more a corrective change than bad thing.

I'm not seeing how what happens to internet search in China affects Americans. Nor what ethical concerns there are.

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Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by Kalium on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:22PM (#17709153)

I believe the expected reaction is the same amount of moral outrage that would accompany the American government treating the American public the same way.

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Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by jryan49 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:53PM (#17711199)

What if China takes over the world? What if a ton of countries that act this way start appearing and people in our country start using them as examples to follow. I feel like these things are already happening, that's why I care. When parts of the world get worse off, it eventually will get worse for all of us.

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Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by EliRivers on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:21PM (#17709141)

The Chinese aren't scrubbing American textbooks of the historical record.

The Chinese government certainly would like to, though, and if they get powerful enough they will.

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Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by tonyztan on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:38PM (#17709318)

> "The Chinese aren't scrubbing American textbooks of the historical record"

However, the Chinese Communist Party is in fact coercing American websites to conform to its political preferences.

"It issued an ultimatum that expired last week, asking airlines around the world to refer to Taiwan as part of China on their websites."

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Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by mratzloff on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:26PM (#17709209)

At what point does it become a moral imperative to stop doing business with a government? I assume we can all agree that US businesses should not sell more efficient gas chambers to Nazi Germany. So where does the line get drawn?

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