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This is a comparatively recent change, to which China responded by temporarily blocking google. Earlier in their history, they did facilitate Chinese state cens
by random4369 9y ago
This is a comparatively recent change, to which China responded by temporarily blocking google. Earlier in their history, they did facilitate Chinese state censorship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
- icebraining 9y agoI don't excuse Google for having ceded to China's censorship. But that doesn't mean it isn't factually false to say "Searching 'tiananmen square' or 'tank' man' won't show any traces of those events" when that stopped happening almost a decade ago.
- random4369 9y agoWell, it has no effect on the factual validity of what I said because I didn't specify whether its past or present tense, nor did GP ask for an ongoing example. Nor does it have any effect on the argument here. Google did it in the recent past in China, they do the same thing in the US for politically undesirable content today, and Baidu continues doing it in China. The fact is that we live in an information age, and access to information is gated by the major players. This in turn literally determines what people can learn and what ideas are seen as socially acceptable or not. This amount of propaganda and censorship power is unprecedented. Google is currently censoring gun purchase related searches in the US, and there's no law requiring them to do it. That should make it quite clear that they have both the capacity and the desire to manipulate public opinion through censorship.
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