That's a straw man which conflates Google with the regulations it is proposing to follow.
Google wants to do business in China; and it does so by obeying Chinese regulations. It obeys the law. End of story.
If you want to change it, lobby the PRC.
Google wants to do business in China; and it does so by obeying Chinese regulations. It obeys the law. End of story.
If you want to change it, lobby the PRC.
The regulations in China are immoral. Obeying immoral laws is also immoral. (If the law says 'gas the [ethnic group]' it is still wrong to do it).
If Google must follow immoral laws to operate in China, they should not operate in China.
I don't have any pull with the PRC but I can boycott Google.
The real world isn't black & white like that. By operating in China, Google isn't making _less_ information available to the average Chinese internet user, since Baidu, Bing etc are already censored anyway. If anything, it will likely be a net win in terms of access to information and user experience as we'd finally see some meaningful competition to Baidu.
If you want to have input in a powerful entity, I really recommend starting a government. If you have an old one layout around, maybe dust if off and use that, but it’ll probably take some work.
I don’t know where you live, but in the US, there’s a bunch of people who are interested in reviving their government entity. They can’t do it alone, though. Here’s the website:
Using a private company to earn an income and then saying "I can't do anything about [bad thing company is doing], companies are by their nature amoral profit chasing beasts" is moral cowardice.
If you work for or with that evil entity, you can do something about it. That it would impact your comfortable lifestyle is not really relevant to the moral calculus.
The only thing that will make things better is many people individually doing the right thing.
Also, I'm sure a number of google employees, and the population in general feel this way. When their engineers have to answer for building the mental handcuffs for China, it may not quite be the bragging right it once was.