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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by ehsankia on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:11AM (#19177196)
> You can't create tools for censorship in China and support a free and open Internet

What does following local laws of one specific country have to do with the open global internet? You do realize that Chinese internet is already behind a firewall, and is not open, right?

> Google went out of it's way to protect Chinese dissidents

And we have absolutely facts about what they were working on with Dragonfly, except leaks from a source which was very clearly biased against the project. For all we know, they were coming up with new tech that allowed them to provide services to Chinese citizen while still protecting them.

That to me makes much more sense as to why they were considering re-entering, than the baseless "they were only doing it for the money" reasoning.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by calibas on Saturday February 16, 2019 @01:06AM (#19177338)
You're acting like your guesses are just as good as The Intercept's investigation, and all to defend Google!

Why are you doing PR for them?

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by hopler on Saturday February 16, 2019 @01:41PM (#19180176)
Whether Google is in China or not, China Internet is not free and open.

That's simply not Google's choice. The people with guns and tanks in China decide that. Judge Google by what they do the Internet where they have power, with browser tech and HTTP standards and AMP and DNS and YouTube and whatever.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by calibas on Saturday February 16, 2019 @02:23PM (#19180430)
They do have power here, all they need to do is not secretly partner with an oppressive regime to assist them with censoring the Internet. That's quite easy to do, hell, I'm doing it right now...

All you've done is framed the situation in a way that makes it seem like Google isn't responsible for it's own actions.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by ionised on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:45AM (#19190043)
> China Internet is not free and open.

Then Google should have nothing to do with it. Otherwise they are not supportive of 'a free and open internet', but are actively supporting a close, censored and controlled internet.

It's pretty simple.

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