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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by lvoudour on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @08:26AM (#18228765)
> Likewise, morality beyond legality is much more likely if it doesn’t yield any ground to competitors

Then, why do it at all?

You want to tell the world what is right and wrong, fine, do it as an individual, write a book, found a religion or something. Enforcing your moral values inside the company and even worse, using the company's power to force them to the world - only to abandon them when it hurts profits - is perverse IMO.

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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by zucan on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:31AM (#18229176)
> Enforcing your moral values inside the company and even worse, using the company's power to force them to the world - only to abandon them when it hurts profits - is perverse IMO.

The same could be said about executives and their lack of moral values. Except the C-level actually wields the power to control the company.

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