Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search

Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by radiator on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:06AM (#19309486)

Exactly. There are many websites which won't show up in a Google search in the West also, even if you search for their exact domain name. Some of them can be found on other search engines, some other maybe not.

So it must be that the opponents of this project are not opposed to censorship in general, but to censorship as applied in the People's Republic of China.

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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by mirimir on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:53PM (#19315006)

Right. The West's censorship is somewhat about fighting crime, protecting at-risk people, protecting people from themselves, and so on. But it's also about protecting the status quo. And, as much as I wouldn't like living in China, their censorship is arguably not that different. At most, there's more emphasis on protecting the status quo.

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