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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by humanrebar on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:47AM (#18229304)
The concern isn't about personal purity. It's about other human beings being treated as less equal or less important.

Everyone is equal on some level just by being human. They are inherently worth treating well. That includes freedom from death and harm. But that also includes freedom of thought, conscience, and expression.

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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by yourbandsucks on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:17PM (#18233768)
If you really believe that, then you must understand that 99% of a loaf is better than none.

Docs, Hangouts, YouTube. All very difficult to censor. Its whack a mole, complicated by https. Information wants to be free.

Standing on principle here denies them that 99%. Are you going to make that call for them, or should they make it for themselves?

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