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by hueving 2761 days ago
You don't have to directly suffer from genocide to know genocide is bad.
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Please unpack for me how opening up Google Search in China precipitates genocide.
It does so by censoring information about what's going on in Tibet and Xinjiang, for example.
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.
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.