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Way to beat around the bush. This is the botched censorship system, and at least Google used to make that clear. Nowadays, they show you 10 minutes of HD video
by revelation 14y ago
Way to beat around the bush. This is the botched censorship system, and at least Google used to make that clear. Nowadays, they show you 10 minutes of HD video of someone trying out various search queries in various browsers and being blocked.
And they have the chuzpe to add "we have checked our systems and couldn't find anything". Way to make yourself complicit.
There have already been congressional hearings into Google's business in china, back when they still tried to enable unhindered access for users there.
- azernik 14y agoI did find it interesting that they got through that whole article without using the words "blocked" or "censorship". However, your read of this is completely off-base. Reading between the lines: "Since we moved to Hong Kong and stopped filtering search, the Chinese government is just cutting off internet connections that are seen searching for sensitive terms; here's a workaround that will give you advance warning, so you can rework your search phrasing."
- robrenaud 14y agoActually, I think this might piss off the government more. Imagine Google could perfectly predict what would be censored before even querying. Now you can search for related, uncensored terms and find the information you want without having to play a costly guessing game where if you guess wrong, you temporarily lose access to information. This will make evading the censorship easier by lowering the costs of exploration.