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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by jakobegger on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:27AM (#21440966)
> If you are a citizen of a state that is known to coerce its people to work for it, you are not an individual, you're a state-level actor.

You are putting collective blame on a billion people for the actions of their dictatorial government. This is not a reasonable position to hold in a supposedly enlightened society, it is rather just a thinly veiled excuse for run-of-the-mill xenophobia.

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by eastendguy on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:17AM (#21441310)
Nobody blames anyone here. The point is that anyone who lives (or has family) in a dictatorship can be easily blackmailed by its own state, with no legal recourse.
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