Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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.

How do you buy hardware? I’m genuinely asking because where I live it’s impossible to buy stuff that wasn’t made in China.

It’s almost impossible to lead en ethical life in this day and age if you do anything related to tech.

> I’m genuinely asking because where I live it’s impossible to buy stuff that wasn’t made in China.

So wait, now buying something that was made in China means condoning the CCP? That's a pretty big jump in logic.

The CCP’s claim to legitimacy is based on continued economic growth in the PRC.

Buying made in China products supports this economic growth, and also the cheap, often exploitative, labor that went into producing them.

Besides, you should probably support the local manufacturing industry wherever you’re living.

And democracy's legitamacy is derived from monkeys voting in a system rigged against them, after listening to false promises of growth. While still supporting cheap, often exploitative labor.

I mean, from your description, I'd rather want a system that actually shows continued growth, rather than hollowed promises of growth.

Let's be honest here, democracy's real growth had been going to war with nations and extracting/exploiting resources from them. Hence why the past 50 years, there has been no real growth in democratic countries because they are not able to as easily extract from the rest of the world.