you have no appreciation for subtlety. google are pretty clearly saying "look, china is censoring these searches", but they are doing it in such a way that the

you have no appreciation for subtlety. google are pretty clearly saying "look, china is censoring these searches", but they are doing it in such a way that the chinese government can't object without looking vaguely foolish. they're both making a show of sticking to the letter of the law (after all they havent said anything other than "there's a technical issue we can't figure out, here's a workaround in the meantime") and playing to the global audience.