Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation

Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by ggggtez on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:43PM (#18702000)

The only unique thing here is Google officially left China years ago, while other companies never did. Leaving China is a choice any company can make, and Apple could do it too. It's not like China is the only country in the world with workers or factories. Other countries would love for Apple to bring jobs to them.

The decision isn't free, and that is the problem everyone is pointing out. You can't expect companies to "do the right thing" when it gets in the way of profit. The only way to make that happen is to put massive PR pressure on them to do "the right thing" whatever you believe that to be.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by longerthoughts on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:03PM (#18703083)

>The only way to make that happen is to put massive PR pressure on them to do "the right thing" whatever you believe that to be.

Bad PR isn't enough. It takes convincing A LOT of customers to stop buying their products or convincing A LOT of shareholders to stop holding their stock. Public opinion is just a loose proxy for expected revenue - if revenue doesn't at least look like it might begin to significantly suffer, nothing is likely to change.

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