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

Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by int_19h on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:28PM (#18704326)

It's the difference between not actively resisting something that is morally wrong, and actively assisting in its implementation.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by jayd16 on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:36AM (#18707909)

Maybe I'm missing a part of the plan but caching what was already going to be censored anyway doesn't seem that much further of a step. Is it that the censorship is more hidden?

If they had a "show censored results" checkbox would that be acceptable? Or is Google search currently blocked entirely and trying to get unblocked is the moral dilemma? I'm just trying to understand the moral difference.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by int_19h on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:30AM (#18722725)

> Maybe I'm missing a part of the plan but caching what was already going to be censored anyway doesn't seem that much further of a step.

If you are going to deliberately kill someone who you know is going to be murdered by someone else anyway, before they do that, are you a murderer?

I would dare say that most people would say "yes". The law certainly sees it that way.

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