In article , Joe Barta
wrote:

You miss the point... the point is to isolate issues of contention. If
you can't do that, then what's the use of further discussion?

But you want to discuss issues in a context that has no basis in
reality.

To remove the profit motive from the discussion means we're talking
fiction.

Google's actions, like those of Yahoo and Microsoft (and Cisco, if
memory serves) are solidly based in profit. If there was no profit to
be made, Google would have told the Chinese "Look, we're against
censorship and refuse to censor our service. If you choose to firewall
your country and block your citizens from accessing Google, go ahead,
but we refuse to play along."

That's what "Don't be evil" means. That's what people who aren't evil
do.

Instead, Google said "Well, we don't really like the idea, but if
you're prepared to pay us and allow us access to your market in the
future, we can be a *little bit* evil."

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Boycott Google for their support of communist censorship and repression!