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Even though Google's search engine will censor some content in China, it will still be miles better than Baidu. People who use Google will find highly relevant
by g9yuayon 8y ago
Even though Google's search engine will censor some content in China, it will still be miles better than Baidu. People who use Google will find highly relevant results quickly when searching about health, academic research, and a million of other things. They won't have to worry about finding thinly disguised promotions of illegal hospitals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wei_Zexi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wei_Zexi) on the first page of Google. They don't have to worry about combing through pages of search results for something that should've been found in seconds. They don't have to play the game of mouse and cat just to get a usable VPN to use Google outside of the GFW.
So, the logic of this protest is that Chinese people do not deserve even incremental improvement, a huge improvement by the way, in their lives?
- amckinlay 8y agoThey do deserve it, just not a censored one.
- scarcely 8y agoAs a Chinese living abroad, I censor my internet voluntarily via custom ublock cosmetic filters that kick in automatically upon match of certain regex patterns. I call it my "outer great firewall". Very effective protection against hate speech
- dlivingston 8y agoOut of curiosity, why would you do this? Why would you want to voluntarily censor information from yourself?