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alkonaut ◴[] No.21183066[source]
Stop sucking up to dictatorships. If they don't want to do business with you because your map or flags or search engine shows something they don't like - leave. Don't censor your search engine or modify your maps to fit their worldview.
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beisner ◴[] No.21183269[source]
This is a simplistic view. When push comes to shove, companies don't behave with political principles. Apple is not going to throw away access to 1/6 of world's population over a political dispute. It's unrealistic to expect any company to, if they're sufficiently large. The only way to achieve political goals is to apply political pressure directly at the state level, or to work with domestic movements that seek to undermine the policies in question.
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1. yters ◴[] No.21183317[source]
"What does it benefit to gain the whole world if you lose your soul?" - Jesus
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2. tialaramex ◴[] No.21184402[source]
Most famously quoted in the play "A Man for all Seasons"

"It profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... But for Wales?"

Thomas More is convicted and will be executed, on the false evidence of a man who he now sees is wearing a chain of office, he asks to see the chain (thereby establishing for the audience what the reward was for lying to secure More's conviction). The chain is for the Attorney General for Wales, prompting this line.

In reality Richard Rich was given a slightly different job with a longer title that doesn't afford such a fun line and of course we can't prove he got it for his deceits, though he does seem like he wasn't on the whole a truthful and upstanding person.

3. yters ◴[] No.21184645[source]
In that framework you are giving up something of infinite value for something of finite value, which is irrational.
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4. jldugger ◴[] No.21186565{3}[source]
I suspect the OP disagrees that souls have infinite value, because they do not exist.
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5. yters ◴[] No.21186695{4}[source]
The big point is to not give up something of greater value for lesser value. Human rights have greater value than increasing profit margins.