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diveanon ◴[] No.21190558[source]
Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.

Really seems like a win win scenario.

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ianleeclark ◴[] No.21190604[source]
> Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.

But what about the share-holder value?

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diveanon ◴[] No.21190665[source]
That's the best part, there is no correct choice.

Corporations love sitting the moral grey area on issues like this, but putting them in a position of having to choose between looking like Chinese stooges or getting banned from China will break their minds.

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ianleeclark ◴[] No.21190748[source]
> Corporations love sitting the moral grey area on issues like this

It sure doesn't seem to me that bending to the will of an authoritarian state is "sitting in the moral grey area." They've made their decision.

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esailija[dead post] ◴[] No.21191071[source]
authoritarian state is a tautology
1. diveanon ◴[] No.21195302[source]
you have spammed this a couple times now and been dismissed in each thread.

Do you have any backing for this belief or is it just a talking point you like to throw around?