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I don’t think I would want to develop a censored search engine (though I’d certainly reconsider for enough money), nor do I think it’s “right” (whatever that means), but I still think that in the intetests of its shareholders, it has a moral and fiscal obligation to make as much money as possible, in perpuitity. I think this implies that Google should go into China. It’s unlikely that Google would make less net profit after entering China, the blowback isn’t impacting financials, and therefore, it’s probably the right decision to move into China.

Personally, I think censorship (all censorship, not just political) is wrong, but if I was the CEO of Google I would be forced to either resign or go into China. And since I follow the money, I probably wouldn’t resign.



> it has a moral and fiscal obligation to make as much money as possible, in perpuitity.

This is simply untrue.

Also a 'moral obligation to make as much money as possible' is fucking hilarious.


How’s that? And what is untrue about the obligations to its shareholders? Not maximizing shareholder value is illegal.


> How’s that?

Someone already explained much of it to you 13 hours ago, in a reply to another comment of yours expressing the similar ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19308149




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