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And yet another part of the company is creating a censored version so that the CCP will let them back into china.
by i_phish_cats 8y ago
And yet another part of the company is creating a censored version so that the CCP will let them back into china.
- anotherevan 8y agoYes, that irony was not lost on me either. I was thinking that someone should introduce Google's left and right hands to each other.
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- bduerst 8y agoI mean, China's the one censoring it. Google could link to the censored websites in the results but that would be a terrible user experience. Wouldn't it be better to do what they do with DMCA takedowns in the US, where they tell you how many results have been removed and why? And Google already censors search results in the EU with the right to be forgotten, where they've received 41,000 requests from EU politicians, so there is precedence in working with local governments
- rrix2 8y agoThey also tied every search request with a government ID according to some reports and one must assume they’re willing and able to share that with the Chinese state security. As far as I’m aware the EU isn’t targeting minority citizens for increased surveillance like the Chinese state is doing to the Uighurs either.
- bduerst 8y ago>They also tied every search request with a government ID according to some reports Which ones? I wasn't aware it was even live. Are you talking about Bing, which is already operating in China?
- rrix2 8y agoI wrote in past tense incorrectly, my grammar isn’t so great. https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/ https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l...