But again the question is: 1. Is this the case in existing Chinese search engines? 2. If yes, Do you have evidence to suggest that Google's Chinese search eng

But again the question is: 1. Is this the case in existing Chinese search engines? 2. If yes, Do you have evidence to suggest that Google's Chinese search engine would be any more harmful than said existing search engines in China? If these points cannot be proven, then it does not seem intellectually honest to claim that Dragonfly is making China a worse place. To say that it fails to make China a better place, sure that makes sense. But to say that it makes it worse necessitates proving that the status quo in China without Google is better than a China with Google. Most commenters in this thread aren't actually outlining the impact of the product iself, choosing instead to criticize the fact that Google isn't signalling American or Western values as much as they want . I'd be opposed to Google entering China if the majority of Chinese were opposed to it, but this does not seem to be the case. It seems patrimonial on my part to think that I'm better equipped to judge how a society on the other side of the world functions than the people that actually live there. No doubt some Chinese oppose censorship, but the majority seem to accept it or even support it as a necessary means to ensure social stability.