Google: Uh, not your friend

[about_average]

I'm not too crazy about it, but it's funny how conservatives are all up in arms about a capitalist company following the laws of other countries in order to do business.
Google is no different than Boeing, or Martin Marietta, doing business with the government of Saudi Arabia, or any number companies that do business with oppressive governments.
Even Trump does business with them.

Could this be a case of situational outrage?

 

[bellisarius]

I'm not too crazy about it, but it's funny how conservatives are all up in arms about a capitalist company following the laws of other countries in order to do business.
Google is no different than Boeing, or Martin Marietta, doing business with the government of Saudi Arabia, or any number companies that do business with oppressive governments.
Even Trump does business with them.

Could this be a case of situational outrage?

Or is this a case of you trying to conflate separate issues? This is an issue where a company is entering into a compact with a government to help it more effectively oppress its citizens. In this instance Google is not merely a supplier of some product or service but is actively participating.

 

[IG_88]

I'm not too crazy about it, but it's funny how conservatives are all up in arms about a capitalist company following the laws of other countries in order to do business.
Google is no different than Boeing, or Martin Marietta, doing business with the government of Saudi Arabia, or any number companies that do business with oppressive governments.
Even Trump does business with them.

Could this be a case of situational outrage?

Or is this a case of you trying to conflate separate issues? This is an issue where a company is entering into a compact with a government to help it more effectively oppress its citizens. In this instance Google is not merely a supplier of some product or service but is actively participating.

I'm with Ish on this one (gotta take a shower now) cuz he's right that this is a rare case of a private company actively helping another government oppress it's people instead of just selling a product.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Yes, and no. Until later voting reforms only householders could vote - male householders.

As in many countries, the ability to vote was restricted to males with significant property assets.

It depends on how you define 'citizen'.

In some countries, e.g. France under Emperor Napoleon III, no one had any rights as a citizen.

Even in the USA, citizens were a restricted class - no Native Americans and no blacks.

UK seamen had to have a similar conduct book showing which on ships they had been crew members. A less than satisfactory conduct record meant they were unlikely to be employed by any shipping company.

Those were the days...

 

[SpeareChucker]

I'm not too crazy about it, but it's funny how conservatives are all up in arms about a capitalist company following the laws of other countries in order to do business.
Google is no different than Boeing, or Martin Marietta, doing business with the government of Saudi Arabia, or any number companies that do business with oppressive governments.
Even Trump does business with them.

Could this be a case of situational outrage?

So, you're saying that Liberals are comfortable with a capitalist company working to oppress peoples across the world?

 

[bellisarius]

You do get that impression.

How do we even know about this? All of this was internal Google communication and apparently there was a group within the company quite upset about this project (those Asian engineers they hired on H1B's?). And apparently it was staying in the company until management ordered the employees to "purge their files." At least you have to give management high marks for consistency, they'll censor their employees as readily as they'll censor anyone else they don't like, like, oh say, Alex Jones, Peterson, Shapiro, and others. Makes you sort of wonder about all their PR propaganda about being so 'inclusive and diverse.' The inconsistencies between what they say and what they do keep piling up.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I wonder if our friend here sees the difference between a corporation that sells things and one that controls access to information?