Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship

Re:Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship by t0astbread on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:56AM (#19541373)

> On the other hand, when Nazis were making the death camps, many companies happily provided lots of help, all for money

Was it all because of money? Wouldn't they (the companies and their executives) have faced consequences if they turned down an "offer" by the Nazi government?

You're generally right but I don't think bringing Nazis into this discussion is a good idea.

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Re:Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship by sasasassy on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:36AM (#19542633)

I think the parent comment was referring to IBM in the Holocaust. Foreign powerful companies that would really have little to lose for not helping the Nazi regime.

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Re:Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship by throwaway2048 on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:12AM (#19541434)

The Chinese communist party has killed more people than the nazis ever did.

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Re:Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship by berdario on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:51AM (#19542723)

So did the British...

a more cogent rebuttal is to point out that US companies like IBM didn't really need to do business with Nazi Germany for their survival.

I trust Google to not be generally evil, but when they still do something evil or with bad consequence we should still hold them (and any other capitalist behemoth) accountable.

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Re:Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship by pferde on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:48AM (#19541786)

Irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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Re:Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship by 29ssyg on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:41AM (#19541547)

And the old Communists too. But you know who's in charge of the narrative...

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