@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ Any act of protest will use things in ways that it was not meant to be used.
For example, the street is not meant to showcase protest banners, it is meant to be a passageway for cars.
As engineers, we have a moral responsability towards society. We should not blindly follow orders of those in power if it violates our principles, e.g. build weapons or censorship mechanisms. And we should freely express our principles and violation concerns.
Making a statement where no one will ever see it, like a personal website, is <<effective,sure to have no effect>>.
Finally, it is up to the Stack Overflow community to decide what is right or wrong, and so far the consensus is go ahead:
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** http://stackoverflow.com/users/1009479/yu-hao
** http://archive.is/76FCb
** "GFW (Great Firewall of China) is one of the most notorious inventions in the history of Internet. Anyone working for it should be ashamed."
- 2018-12 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzWApdCNdik> 100 Christians detained in China crackdown
- 2018-12 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=dsd1NkCKaNg> In full: 'I begged them to kill me' - ex-Xinjiang detainee Mihrigul Tursun gives testimony in the US
