> Not sure if this will benefit people over there though to ban google completely. It won't really help them, and focusing on the Chinese market misses the mos

> Not sure if this will benefit people over there though to ban google completely. It won't really help them, and focusing on the Chinese market misses the most insidious problem: a censored Google search engine in the PRC gives the Chinese Communist Party leverage over Google outside of the PRC. Just look at what happened with the airlines: the PRC forced them to change their foreign websites to reflect a PRC political positions by threatening their access to their market. Think of what they could do to "uncensored" American Google with similar leverage: * Chinese human rights websites are deranked from relevant searches down to the second or third page. This is a subtle and deniable type of censorship. * Ditto with critical coverage of Tibet or Xinjiang. * Taiwan is shown on Google maps and infoboxes as part of the PRC. * Google gives Xinhua, the PRC's English-language propaganda outlet [1], prominence on Google news. * etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency#Bias_&_political_correctness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency#Bias_&_poli...