> Replace their government censorship with our social media outrage, and the parallels become clearer
They are not even remotely the same thing. You can choose to ignore "social media outrage" and stay out of jail; try ignoring government demands in China and see how it works out.
Cultural pressure to conform may be strong, but as long as it's informal, it's relatively easy to survive. When it becomes formal, you have to deal with a lot of people legally allowed to physically hurt you.
There is censorship in the West (especially in the UK, where the police started jailing Twitter trolls and Facebook bullies, as well as censoring DNS calls), but it's nowhere near the scale of what you see in China... yet.
> I don't see how this makes LinkedIn morally bankrupt - or more accurately, the whole industry is morally bankrupt
Maybe LI is a bit morally-bankrupter than the average?
They are not even remotely the same thing. You can choose to ignore "social media outrage" and stay out of jail; try ignoring government demands in China and see how it works out.
Cultural pressure to conform may be strong, but as long as it's informal, it's relatively easy to survive. When it becomes formal, you have to deal with a lot of people legally allowed to physically hurt you.
There is censorship in the West (especially in the UK, where the police started jailing Twitter trolls and Facebook bullies, as well as censoring DNS calls), but it's nowhere near the scale of what you see in China... yet.
> I don't see how this makes LinkedIn morally bankrupt - or more accurately, the whole industry is morally bankrupt
Maybe LI is a bit morally-bankrupter than the average?