I'd like to extend a warm welcome to everyone just discovering that American corporations have no innate interest in freedom or democracy, and will bend to state-backed power in a moment if they think it will cost them market access.
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I think you're mistaking a moderately narrow subset of tech for CEOs as a whole when it comes to whimsy, but it's absolutely true that conventional wisdom *about what is profitable or risky* drives corporations, rather than actual analysis.
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That's what makes political action possible; if corporate boards come to believe that bending to Chinese censorship is dangerous they will stop doing it.
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