[fizwhiz]

It confounds me that people who are not natively Chinese, or have never lived there, or ever used the existing search infrastructure (ex: Baidu) make sweeping claims with such confidence that they truly know what's best for Chinese people.

[hueving]

You don't have to directly suffer from genocide to know genocide is bad.

[fizwhiz]

Please unpack for me how opening up Google Search in China precipitates genocide.

[int_19h]

It does so by censoring information about what's going on in Tibet and Xinjiang, for example.

[fizwhiz]

It causes genocide? Or it doesn't help prevent it? Those are 2 different things. It's unclear to me how Google's absence from the Chinese market actually ameliorates your concerns regarding Tibet.

[int_19h]

It doesn't ameliorate them, because it will be censored anyway. But when Google goes there and does the censorship, they are complicit in covering up that genocide. And yes, that makes a difference - ethics isn't about pure utilitarianism, at least not for most people.