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Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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1783 points zaggynl | 4 comments | 18 May 20 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.904s | source
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ddevault ◴[18 May 20 15:27 UTC] No.23223542[source]▶
Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.
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ajconway ◴[18 May 20 15:50 UTC] No.23223951[source]▶
How do you justify being a citizen of your country? (not sure what country that is, but most of them have done bad things in the past). It's possible to be a part of a large organization and not agree with its every action.
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1. davesque ◴[18 May 20 16:16 UTC] No.23224384[source]▶
This analogy holds water about as well as a sieve. You can't shop around citizenship in most other countries. You can't just willy-nilly decide to renounce citizenship in one and go become a citizen in another. I'm sure people will jump in here with counter examples but I'm also sure they'll be the exception and not the norm. You're also born into citizenship. Comparing citizenship to the job market just seems so silly.
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2. trfhuhg ◴[18 May 20 17:10 UTC] No.23225228[source]▶
Nice mental gymnastics. There's always a choice to not support the country by not participating in its economy and becoming a hermit. Ah, but that's inconvenient!
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3. davesque ◴[18 May 20 17:42 UTC] No.23225711[source]▶
Uhuh. Are you Ted Kaczynski then out in the wilderness right now using the internet through a satellite dish?
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4. dleslie ◴[19 May 20 02:29 UTC] No.23230738{3}[source]▶
Despite his violence and present incarceration, Ted remains a serious thought leader in anarcho-primitivism.