NJ5 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
NJ5 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Yay, some good news these days.
I have to give a big high-five to Google for this. And anyone else find China's threat kind of odd? I mean...what are they going to do? Murder someone? |
High-five to Google?
They cooperated with the Chinese government in censoring Google for the Chinese market. Now that they got some problems of their own (getting hacked allegedly by Chinese hackers) they want to pull out. They're not doing it for the Chinese people.
I say fuck Google and fuck the Chinese government. They're both acting solely in their own interest here.
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Well, obviously. Why would they fight a battle solely for the citizens of China? That's pointless. They are acting in their own interests, and their interests result in awesome-ness.
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I didn't say they could do it solely for them. But if they actually followed their "do no evil" BS they wouldn't have helped censorship in the first place.
I wouldn't high-five them for now getting out for selfish reasons.
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I don't blame them though. It's obvious by how much they're entrenched in the Chinese market that they make big money there. And if they pull out (lol, "pull out"), the Chinese people will be pissed. This is potentially a conflict between the Chinese people and the government. And if it starts, it will have been because of corporate selfishness. I love it.
