Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by pm90 on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:36AM (#23223699)

Western companies don’t talk about values, Western governments do. The past few decades have seen an aggressive destruction in the power of Western governments to subdue them to Corporate power. The US is a prime example where the Republican party’s only policy platform (not even exaggerating) is “tax cuts are the solution to every problem”.

The US government specifically has been declawed and dismembered by the current administration to the point of uselessness. The only time it’s willing to assert power is to enable the corrupt dealings of political appointees and lobbyists.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by chance_state on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:11PM (#23226185)

>Western companies don’t talk about values, Western governments do.

This is completely wrong.

Every other ad on TV in the US is preaching about how much Walmart/Amazon/Pepsi/etc. care about the environment/LGBT rights/safe working conditions/etc.

Western companies talk about their supposed values _all the time_, they're just mostly full of shit when they do.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by pm90 on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:35PM (#23231075)

I’m talking specifically about values in an international context. Google won’t try to enforce free speech values it loves when operating in China. They will abide with warantless searches there if need be.

The US government though has more power to resist such demands acting as a sovereign equal to the Chinese State.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by MangoCoffee on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:37AM (#23223729)

so what's this "Don't be evil" thingy that Google always talk about

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by pm90 on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:41AM (#23223809)

Nice rebuttal, giving a single example to disprove a hypothesis about a complex system with a spectrum of participants. Try to be better at debating hypotheses.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by smooth_remmy on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:26PM (#23225444)

You naively think that western governments are immune from being influenced by China.

You're wrong. Governmental institutions like the WHO have been influenced by China. The German government has been influenced: they have been reluctant to criticize China.

There is no magical governmental institution that is immune from this. If the president was a Democrat we'd be in this same situation.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by pm90 on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:42PM (#23225700)

I never said Western Governments are immune to influence from China. They are not. They do have the power to resist that influence with competent leadership, which in the past two decades has only been provided by Democratic administrations.

[ Parent | on HN ]