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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by mrkramer on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:10AM (#42756652)
US is liberal democracy China is not and how much information is censored on Google.com if any? And did US government use Google to target individuals or ethnic groups within US?
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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by wildrhythms on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:51AM (#42756939)
>how much information is censored on Google.com if any?

Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by mrkramer on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:05AM (#42757058)
Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.
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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by jmbwell on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:46AM (#42758014)
No its “intellectual property” “protection” based on some capitalist or whatever ideology

Same thing, different beneficiaries in power

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by mrkramer on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:32AM (#42758498)
Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.
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