<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djohnston</author><text>My feeling is that if you&amp;#x27;re going out of your way to promote an ideology&amp;#x2F;cultural value domestically (Happy Pride Month!, flags everywhere, etc), then yes you need to stick to your guns and not bow to the opposite influence.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re strictly in the business of making money, then by all means conduct your business but stfu about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RyEgswuCsn</author><text>Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?&lt;p&gt;If yes, then Amazon is not &amp;quot;bowing&amp;quot;, and it is The Guardian who is playing word games here.  If not, then it would seem to imply that we are OK with western powers using their capital (instead of gunboats) to impose their ideology on other cultures in the world.&lt;p&gt;Now, one may argue that the customs and values of some countries are incompatible with those of the West and may even be considered &amp;quot;backward&amp;quot; to the point that western companies should completely withdraw from those markets because providing services to such markets equates to empowering those backward social values.  That can be a fair assessment, but just remember not to blame them for &amp;quot;banning western companies&amp;quot; in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/30/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yakubin</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;  Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;They may do that, but then playing a champion of the opposing values when it&amp;#x27;s convenient (pride month in the western world) is hypocrisy and it should be pointed out. If they didn&amp;#x27;t have an LGBTQ-based PR campaign in the West, then this move wouldn&amp;#x27;t merit a mention. Alas, it does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RyEgswuCsn</author><text>Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?&lt;p&gt;If yes, then Amazon is not &amp;quot;bowing&amp;quot;, and it is The Guardian who is playing word games here.  If not, then it would seem to imply that we are OK with western powers using their capital (instead of gunboats) to impose their ideology on other cultures in the world.&lt;p&gt;Now, one may argue that the customs and values of some countries are incompatible with those of the West and may even be considered &amp;quot;backward&amp;quot; to the point that western companies should completely withdraw from those markets because providing services to such markets equates to empowering those backward social values.  That can be a fair assessment, but just remember not to blame them for &amp;quot;banning western companies&amp;quot; in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/30/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results</url></story>