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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by lukevdp on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:57AM (#23507181)
The choice for companies is to either follow a country’s laws, or not operate in that country. It’s not moral relativism, it’s just business.
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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:05AM (#23507221)
I’ve been spouting the same rhetoric, but it isn’t strictly true.

It shouldn’t be difficult to recall at least a handful of recently examples in the US. Uber and Apple come to mind.

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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by christophilus on Saturday June 13, 2020 @07:05AM (#23508622)
Kind of like when IBM sold counting machines to the Nazis so they could better track how many Jews they were gassing. Just business.
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