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Re:Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore by mullingitover on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:48PM (#20779482)
Being from China, which bans Google, while working at Google and arguing in favor of China's policies toward Hong Kong must make for some severe cognitive dissonance.
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Re:Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore by skybrian on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:58PM (#20779636)
Not just being from there. Google has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei, among others. [1]

But I expect the China offices are pretty well firewalled off for security reasons.

[1] https://careers.google.com/locations/

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Re:Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore by umanwizard on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:27AM (#20785417)
As far as I know Google isn't banned in China; it's just blocked. In the sense that there are no legal consequences for using a VPN to get around the firewall.

I could be wrong but this is my understanding.

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