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Re:Florence Museum Won Suit Against Publisher That Used Mich... by ISL on Saturday April 13, 2024 @11:46AM (#40023876)
It leads to balkanization -- see Google's total withdrawal from China.

As a consumer, I recently selected a new device in large part because its cloud-affiliated software (and bespoke operating system) was written, stored, and administered in countries with appropriate and ethical legal frameworks. The competition was more feature-complete, but I concluded that I couldn't trust any of those options.

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Re:Florence Museum Won Suit Against Publisher That Used Mich... by alsetmusic on Saturday April 13, 2024 @02:47PM (#40025133)
Seems more and more that to lead a completely ethical existence means sacrificing luxury, happiness, and time. Or surrender to willful ignorance.
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Re:Florence Museum Won Suit Against Publisher That Used Mich... by lostlogin on Saturday April 13, 2024 @03:17PM (#40025293)
> to lead a completely ethical existence means sacrificing luxury, happiness, and time

Hasn’t this always been true? It’s also getting increasingly easy to buy things that meet ethical standards (or more cynically, it’s easier to buy things that meet some low bar that someone setup).

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Re:Florence Museum Won Suit Against Publisher That Used Mich... by fsckboy on Saturday April 13, 2024 @03:35PM (#40025405)
> It leads to balkanization -- see Google's total withdrawal from China.

True balkanization does not occur in Italy, except Trieste and perhaps parts of Friuli-Venezia Giulia... and I put that in Italics!

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