> But since then, Google has embarked upon a secret project to re-introduce a censored/surveilling search tool to the Chinese market. > > Google's not alone.

> But since then, Google has embarked upon a secret project to re-introduce a censored/surveilling search tool to the Chinese market. > > Google's not alone. Apple is totally dependent on China, both for customers and for manufacturing, which is why it agreed to remove all functional VPNs from its App Store, leaving only those that had backdoors for Chinese spies. In what world are these two equal? Apple gave China their server keys. Google walked away from a %30+ market share in China since it didn't wanted to censor search results. A project to enter the Chinese market with a locked down search engine was canceled after internal protests. I hate Google for many things but in this case they have done significantly better than apple. A comparison like this is just not fair.