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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by srkmno on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:30PM (#18704330)
It's what all companies there are required to do and the Chinese people accept it, and a lot of them welcome the social credit system (according to reporting on the program) it's arrogant to to presume we know what's best for them.
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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by int_19h on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @05:27AM (#18705608)
> it's arrogant to to presume we know what's best for them

Demanding that Google withdraw from this project is not about "what's best for them". It's about what we are okay with. There's nothing stopping China from implementing the same stuff without help from American corporations, and they're not in any way entitled to such help, so withholding it doesn't presume anything.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by joejerryronnie on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:21PM (#18704506)
>and a lot of them welcome the social credit system

The first rule of the social credit system: do not disparage the social credit system.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by julienreszka on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:02AM (#18704637)
Turns out you seem to not believe in your own moral values as your are ready to give them up
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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by usepgp on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:43AM (#18705283)
*han Chinese people

the minorities are the ones who will predominantly get the short end of the deal here

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by Zhenya on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @02:18AM (#18705048)
" it's arrogant to to presume we know what's best for them."

Would you say the same for the victims of the khemr rouge, millions killed by Stalin?

Maybe the yellow stars helped the Jewish people gather for the Sabbath? /S

Basic human rights are not relative.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by Zhenya on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:53AM (#18706732)
Downvotes!!!! China-apologist brigade in full effect.

Why not tell me how you disagree?

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