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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by cromwellian on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:52PM (#29492158)
Leaky censoring, you could still find the banned stuff. Sergey Brin was very anti-authoritarian given his background, and Google's decision to leave China was far more principled than "we have no choice". They were given a choice to comply with onerous government restrictions and decided to say no.

(And yes, the "old" Google of the Brin area is gone. I also don't think Steve Jobs would kowtow to the CCP and compromise Apple like Cook is doing. The post 2010-era is now run on bean-counter ethics)

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by xyzzyz on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:00PM (#29492603)
Yes, you’re totally right. When I was growing up in 2000s, Google was the epitome of cool, and I dreamed of working there. Then, when I worked there in mid-to-late 2010s, it was not at all what it had been before.
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