Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia

Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by mrpopo on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:36AM (#21440694)

I am sorry that you think like that, but the government is nothing without its people. The moment you start saying there is nothing you can do is the moment you lose. Russian dissidents etc. Chinese middle-class is complacently trading freedom for comfort. American and European middle-class too, for that matter.

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by sabas123 on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:59AM (#21440828)

I feel it is really unfair to blame chinese individuals like this, can we blame American's for all of their terrible influences they have had around the world too then?

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by _iyig on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:53AM (#21441130)

There is a difference between blaming someone for the actions of a government over which they have little control, and suggesting that it’s possible to work toward a better system. Nobody blamed the Civil Rights Movement for segregation; though they lived in a time when Jim Crow was law, they did all they could to defeat it.

I’d also suggest there’s a difference between acceptance of bad government action, even if you don’t or can’t actively oppose it, and active defense of such action.

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