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A comment on I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine. Parent comment

Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by fizwhiz on Monday December 03, 2018 @05:08PM (#18593616)
Please unpack for me how opening up Google Search in China precipitates genocide.
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Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by int_19h on Monday December 03, 2018 @05:53PM (#18593963)
It does so by censoring information about what's going on in Tibet and Xinjiang, for example.
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Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by fizwhiz on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:05PM (#18594504)
It causes genocide? Or it doesn't help prevent it? Those are 2 different things. It's unclear to me how Google's absence from the Chinese market actually ameliorates your concerns regarding Tibet.
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Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by int_19h on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:39PM (#18595101)
It doesn't ameliorate them, because it will be censored anyway. But when Google goes there and does the censorship, they are complicit in covering up that genocide. And yes, that makes a difference - ethics isn't about pure utilitarianism, at least not for most people.
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