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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by philwelch on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:35PM (#18173134)
> Not buying their moral arguments at all, given that they are about to enter the Chinese market again

Their "moral" concerns are driven by the noisy section of their workforce that reflexively opposes the US military. These people aren't outspoken about the behavior of the Chinese government, in fact they probably don't think about it much.

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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by mattnewton on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:46PM (#18173179)
I should probably keep my mouth shut, but as a Google employee I can assure you I am concerned about both and I am not alone. My views are my own, etc
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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by jtl999 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @12:27AM (#18173345)
Thanks for what you do.
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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by Strongerpass on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @12:34AM (#18173360)
What did he do?
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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by PhasmaFelis on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:51PM (#18173193)
That is completely untrue. Googlers seem to be just as upset over the China project as they were over the Pentagon thing.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe... * https://www.foxnews.com/tech/google-employees-quit-over-cont...

I don't know who told you that, but you shouldn't trust them.

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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by philwelch on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @12:53AM (#18173424)
Fair point.

Guess who Google actually listens to, though.

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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by jpatokal on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:46PM (#18173182)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe...
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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by Latteland on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:14AM (#18173491)
When I was at google people were against building a censored search engine for China, this caused a lot of arguing before they pulled out the first time.
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