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I find this dubious. Google is not known for respecting privacy, and large corporations in general are not known for voluntarily passing on trillion dollar mark

• donkers 3y ago
  This has some context on Google’s exit from China. They refused to censor the search engine to China’s liking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#2010–2016:_Giving_up_search_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#2010–2016:_Giving...
  • Kbelicius 3y ago
    Only after they were hacked by China, before that they had no problems with censorship. They also had a plan to return. Doubt there were any principles in play when making decisions on their China operarions
  • smallstepforman 3y ago
    Google have a history of censorship in western countries, as evidenced by the scrubbing of all C19 alternative information which didn’t align with TPTB narratives.
  • GeekyBear 3y ago
    > They refused to censor the search engine to China’s liking. Google had no problem with censoring the search results in China. They exited the country after it began hacking into their data centers. > Since arriving here in 2006 under an arrangement with the government that purged its Chinese search results of banned topics, Google has come under fire for abetting a system that increasingly restricts what citizens can read online. Google linked its decision to sophisticated cyberattacks on its computer systems that it suspected originated in China and that were aimed, at least in part, at the Gmail user accounts of Chinese human rights activists. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/world/asia/13beijing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/world/asia/13beijing.html