Google is probably not censoring their results in Japan. That said, look at the reputational damage done by (the now supposedly cancelled) Project Dragonfly:
Let's not overlook that there are people in jail in the US who are asking for medical care and not getting it:
"Others said that correction officers who are assigned to taking people to clinics have ignored their requests for medical attention."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyregion/coronavirus-rikers-nyc-jail.html
the death threats i've received for writing open source software are the lights that mark the way:
considering the death threats i got based on publishing only the half-done nonworking source code for my activitypub spider, i am really excited to see what happens when i operate a global firehose reassembler fulltext search tootspider service with full source code available for anyone to easily replicate my results
sounds like my friends and friends-of-friends are now firmly into two categories: those who are taking isolation seriously and are not leaving the house *at all* and those who are just "distancing" or "limiting contact" and trying to carry on their lives (aka some of the 5 million USAians who will get infected in the next week and show up in the charts in 2-3 weeks)
I have a feeling that we are going to see dozens or hundreds of supply chains slowly disintegrating over the next 90-180 days.
Expect shortages.
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