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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by Aunche on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:34PM (#18042827)
Google is doing what already happens in China. What if the torturer used Google to look up torturing techniques? We should just leak all of their source code. To go even further, the taxes China collects the imports you buy may be paying the torturer. I'm going to need you to give all your credit card information for me to make sure.
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by pcwalton on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:51PM (#18042931)
No, sorry, you can't evade moral culpability like that. Congress was correct to call Yahoo's actions regarding Shi Tao "inexcusably negligent behavior at best, and deliberately deceptive behavior at worst".
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by Aunche on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:06PM (#18043009)
Dragonfly is about as far removed from Shi Tao as your Chinese import purchases. And since when has Congress having a vocal opinion on anything ever been anything but pandering to their voters?
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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by throwaway2048 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @12:25AM (#18044443)
Having a plan to directly feed the Chinese search and user data is very far from "removed".

Why do they have that plan? Because there is absolutely zero chance china would allow them to operate without it.

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