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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by data_maan on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:09PM (#40362687)
So you don't feel it is an issue, when you say "prince fund bad, random fund good" that it is fraught with all kinds of ethical issues to bring money and knowhow into a country that has public beheadings?
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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by yieldcrv on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:38AM (#40363155)
ah exhibit A: and The West has public extrajudicial executions, as well as semi-public ones more formally

…where is your boycott of Silicon Valley? you don’t feel it is an ethical issue to bring money and knowhow into that country? which country passes your standard exactly

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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by hashiyakshmi on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @05:27AM (#40364759)
A laughable false equivalance, at least in the West you won't be executed for "crimes" such as apostasy and homosexuality.
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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by yieldcrv on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:45AM (#40366885)
why would you not do business with private organizations in one country but not the other over what the state enables?

why would you vilify other people choosing to do business with those private organizations based on their nexus?

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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by data_maan on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:27PM (#40469652)
Because there are levels of brutality, that's why! It doesn't just matter that you kill people, it also matter for what, and how!

And public beheadings are truly medieval and barbaric.

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