Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project

Re:Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret Ch... by DyslexicAtheist on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:20AM (#18568830)

taking sides and not cherry picking the positive contributions to society while turning a blind eye to them aiding foreign regimes in committing crimes¹, is not easy to do. And I mean this in the most sincere way possible.

But in the words of Desmond Tutu, "if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"

¹ Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...

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Re:Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret Ch... by ex-aws-now-goog on Friday November 30, 2018 @09:32AM (#18569335)

I am afraid that I missed the link where running a business in China is equivalent to turning a blind eye to their human rights abuses.

There is a spectrum between doing nothing and quitting that falls under "not being neutral in situations of injustice". If our only tool for reforming systems (such as countries or companies) is to abandon them, progress would hardly be possible. Tutu understood this and worked hard to enable reconciliation after Apartheid.

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