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		Glyptodon on Aug 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath fo... The ACM itself also won't put its code on the right side of the kind of wrongs being perpetrated in China.

brian_herman on Aug 10, 2020 [–]

What do you mean?

Glyptodon on Aug 14, 2020 | [–]

They don't want to alienate Chinese members so they go to great lengths to prevent the code of conduct from outright prohibiting participation in the creation of things like the systems used to control and oppress the Uyghurs, etc.

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