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So we have the fake outrage here over working with a government organization to enforce the law (which you may disagree with, but it is still the law).

Meanwhile, Apple, Google, etc all get a free pass for working with China, which is doing far worse things to its citizens, and has made no attempt to conceal that it wants to use those tech companies to do even worse things. The hypocrisy on this board is astounding at times.

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You seem to forget that what you refer to as "still the law" is only the law in one country (the USA), and when Apple, Google etc comply in China the rules they are complying with are "still the law" in that country.

I'm not sure how you could consider Google to have been given a "free pass", given the number of times stories about employees protesting those issues have trended here.

When was the last time Google was kicked out of a job fair over their products or abuse of personal data?

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