If we keep prioritizing money and greed over everything else, propping up absurd authoritarian regimes like this in the process, we're probably not going to be free to have these beautiful choices in the future. This isn't cool.https://twitter.com/stegersaurus/status/1233200333112758272 …
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1/ In a sense, pointing out that the supply chain and general cause/effect is super complicated to trace is a "gotcha" in that nobody can offer a satisfying 100% answer to it. Because it's complicated. The show "The Good Place" has an entire plot dedicated to this concept.
2/ That being said, there's a way to be pragmatic about it and not get lost in indecisiveness. And that is to, at the very least, make a distinction between a complicated chain of events, and -directly facilitating a bad thing-. That's what Shutterstock is doing here.
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3/ They're not only helping China deliver a mechanism to manipulate the minds of well over a billion citizens, but they're also making it easier for other to follow suite. It's not just the action itself- it's the example they're setting that's terrible.
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4/ They're helping to legitimatize the worst aspects of the regime. Not every dealing with China involves this kind of evil. You can do business doing something good, and therefore push things in the right direction. Like an uncensored search engine.
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