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From the actual Google Support question, this was posted on 11/10/19. Why are we only now just noticing? Was it previously confined to China and has now just ro

• Yeri 6y ago
  Youtube is blocked in China though, so using VPNs technically Google shouldn't know they are based in CN.
• jshevek 6y ago
  Viral noticing is fed by widespread predispositions, which change over time like fashion. There is a critical mass of people paying attention to censorship in general, and recently a critical mass of people attentive to the evils of the CCP. Also, seems to have been at least since 2012 https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/jun/all-blocked-keywords-according-google https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/jun/all-blocked-keywords-...
  • elefanten 6y ago
    How far Google has fallen. From proactively fighting political censorship to silently facilitating it.
  • yorwba 6y ago
    > Also, seems to have been at least since 2012 https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/jun/all-blocked-keywords-according-google https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/jun/all-blocked-keywords-... You're misrepresenting that link. It's not a list of things that Google censors, but a list of things that Google wanted people to know are blocked by the Great Firewall (i.e. Google calling attention to censorship, not censoring themselves).