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09/26/2004 Archived Entry: "Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship"

Posted by steve @ 05:45 PM EST [Link]

DO NO EVIL...UNLESS IT MIGHT COST YOU MONEY: Google confirmed this weekend that it is presenting cleaned up search results to users in China. Chinese web surfers are prevented from seeing among the results web sites that have been banned by their government.

It's Google's (and their shareholders) business if they want to censor their own offering but it's disconcerting to see yet another western firm screwing the average Chinese to avoid angering a brutal and repressive tyranny.

Read on.