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		flumpcakes 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence > Phrases will be banned/filtered from all digital services in China relating to it. Google was complying with, what I assume is the law in, China and censoring searches for things China doesn't want talked about. Google has since left China, apparently bowing down wasn't enough.

Thorrez 45 days ago [–]

In 2010 Google decided to stop censoring results in China.

>We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

Disclosure: I work at Google.

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