Please provide an example when Google did something harmful to some person in China.

Global censorship is not an example - Google doesn't need to collect someone’s data to implement it.

It’s not about Google. It’s to demonstrate that in certain situations you wouldn’t say that so confidently, and that your assumptions are based on something very fragile, something that large-scale needle-nudging could have an influence on in your lifetime.

Article is about Google.

The article is, but the discussion isn’t, as any pragmatic discussion about privacy concerns the biggest players within that domain.