Why are there 3 threads in the top 10 relating to this topic but 0 have comments?
it almost looks like someone is pushing agenda, eh?
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
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#12If I was in China and had to choose between having a choice between censored baidu and censored google vs just censored baidu, I'd rather have both baidu and google. It's easy for us here in the western world as we have access to both and more uncensored sources to take the moral high ground and subject the Chinese to a "let them eat cake" attitude. Not sure if this will benefit people over there though to ban google…
Google can't change the laws in China. Personally, I'd rather have Google in China if I lived there. It's a great tool.
People should be made aware that there's a filter and all searches are made available to the government.
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#13Good for them. Any company claiming to have moral backbone should not cater to the demands of the Chinese government which has shown time and again that it is a tyrannical regime.
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#14Without stating an opinion on the topic itself, what does the community think about employees agitating against a company practice like this rather than just leaving and doing something else. Obviously they feel strongly about it and want to make sure it doesn’t happen at all, while the company feels they have a huge untapped revenue source.
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#15...not having a decent search engine at all for foreign websites in China is honestly far more oppressive than anything the government censors
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#16I'm glad Google Employees are taking a stand rather than just leaving the company and having their replacements do bad things thinking it will be a one off.
Those are mostly "Software Engineers" and not a lot of them. Google can kick them out and replace within a month. Unfortunetly I dont think executives will give a slightest heck about this article..
> Google can kick them out and replace within a month.
Ah. A believer that software engineers are cogs and can just be “replaced” without training and learning of code bases.
Hiring software engineers, bringing them up to speed, and having them contribute to production features, is expensive. Also, you’ll never truly recoup the lost knowledge that goes.
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#17So, 36 people (at present, anyway) sign a letter. What in the flying frig is that actually supposed to accomplish? There's nothing really actionable here; you've got the nothingness of "that leadership commit to transparency, clear communication, and real accountability."
Are these people going to actually do anything - quit in protest, sabotage, what? No, they are going to whine, and keep drawing their very lucrative salaries and benefits. Put up or shut up.
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#18If I was in China and had to choose between having a choice between censored baidu and censored google vs just censored baidu, I'd rather have both baidu and google. It's easy for us here in the western world as we have access to both and more uncensored sources to take the moral high ground and subject the Chinese to a "let them eat cake" attitude. Not sure if this will benefit people over there though to ban google…
But why do you need two censored search engines? What would be the difference between them?
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#19Why are there 3 threads in the top 10 relating to this topic but 0 have comments?
This and the Google GDPR story. Google is having a rough morning.
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#20If this is immoral, it should also be illegal, no? Is anyone for also lobbying to create a law or executive order to that effect?
Otherwise, another company will simply step into Googles place, or they could be tempted later to try again. The market is too profitable to do otherwise.