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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by mensetmanusman on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:40PM (#26041562)
Google was the only tech company that took a moral stance and left China I thought?

It hurt their income so bad new leadership tried to get back in...

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by bitL on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:16PM (#26041919)
It always starts with a "new leadership"...
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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by LiberatedLlama on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:47PM (#26042196)
No matter what the PR departments of these corporations would have us believe, when push comes to shove it's always about the money. These corporations are fair-weather activists at best.
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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by tim333 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @02:33AM (#26044859)
I think Larry and Sergey still basically control the thing. They both have far more money than they know what to do with. Why would they compromise that much when the money makes no difference to them?
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