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Re:Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companie... by trevyn on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:02AM (#23649465)
complicit: “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act.”

If you feel that the act is questionable, you know that you are involved, and you choose to remain involved, you are complicit.

Trying to morally distance yourself by coming up with justifications is self-hypnosis. Which is fine, but it’s deceiving yourself.

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Re:Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companie... by AnthonyMouse on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:26AM (#23649601)
Should Google and everyone else also stop paying taxes, because they fund the police?
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Re:Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companie... by trevyn on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:05AM (#23650376)
If you are assuming that this would be absurd, that assumption and the belief system it rests on may be preventing you from seeing and understanding what is happening.

There is a long history of people doing personally uncomfortable things after checking their internal moral compass.

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Re:Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companie... by luckylion on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:08AM (#23650383)
> If you feel that the act is questionable

The "act" of law enforcement in general? Is anyone (a few very confused people aside) even arguing that?

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Re:Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companie... by kmlx on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:17AM (#23649563)
yeah, they're using the wrong word as there's nothing questionable going on.

how people "feel" on the other hand...

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