Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps...
by loveistheanswer on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:32PM
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>The (rather massive) flaw in your reasoning is the idea that Google and Apple are the solution to the problem.
What makes you say that?
I see nothing in their comment which implies Google and Apple could or should solve the problems of oppressive countries.
If a criminal who wants to commit murder asks me to sell them a gun and I decline, it would be absurd to think that implied I thought I could solve the problem of murder.
Rather, I would simply be refusing to be a conscious, direct enabler of murder. It would be nakedly malicious for me to reason "well, if I don't sell them this gun, someone else will, so I might as well make some money."
What makes you say that?
I see nothing in their comment which implies Google and Apple could or should solve the problems of oppressive countries.
If a criminal who wants to commit murder asks me to sell them a gun and I decline, it would be absurd to think that implied I thought I could solve the problem of murder.
Rather, I would simply be refusing to be a conscious, direct enabler of murder. It would be nakedly malicious for me to reason "well, if I don't sell them this gun, someone else will, so I might as well make some money."