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Google Gives Up Fight Against Chinese Censorship
judgecorp writes "Google has abandoned its policy of warning Chinese users against keywords that trigger censorship. The search giant had added a warning that advised Chinese users not to use search terms that could cause the Chinese authorities to shut off their access to Google, but has now abandoned these warnings. While Google says they were ineffectual, free speech campaigners have expressed disappointment."
Google have totally abandoned the princeples of freedom, liberty, knowledge, and enlightenment. Google caved and catered to the lowest common denominator here in America and they're not interested in resisting China or any of our thuggish 3 letter agencies here, or anyone.
If you wan't check out the differences between safe search on google.se and google.com from a US ip address, just google something and see what I'm talking about. Google does not care about accurate and unbiased and clean and unfiltered search results.
Google does not want to protect knowledge as a whole, they are perfectly happy to cater to whatever they want to dictate or someone else does so they dont get harrased legally or politically, so they can have one step up on everyone who does not cater to the fear and ignorance of censorship.
Google are victims of political correctness and the evil they do is to victimize its users because they won't stand up for what the internet has become and should be for, free exchange of ideas and information.