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Google used to obey China's censorship requests, and was allowed in China. Then Google decided to stop obeying the requests, and China blocked Google. You're saying that China was …

Google is blocked in China for refusing to censor what China wants. Bing works in China.

Freedom of speech

When I google the WSJ article URL, and click the link from the search results, I don't get a paywall.

Well football player Colin Kaepernick previously faced a lot of criticism for kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racism, and Donald Trump said he s…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21176976

My thought is that it's ok to deal with China as long as they play by our rules not their rules (such as censorship). If they see that they can still operate successfully under a s…

Google said no to China's censorship and is doing pretty well.

I know multiple colleagues who have 1.5 hour commutes each way. For example live in San Francisco and commute to Mountain View, or live in Oakland and commute to Mountain View.

>A view is a view, and an ad will pay out the same regardless of the quality of the content on the page. That's not really true. Advertisers can bid on how much they want to pay fo…

Google has only ever filed 2 patent suits. This one against Uber, and one against BT. The BT one was only after BT gave meritless patents to patent trolls under the condition that …

When your company stores very private info on billions of people, and is actively attacked (sometimes successfully) by the top intelligence agencies of the world[1][2], you have to…

At least some contractors get some of the perks. I've seen kitchen workers, security, maintenance workers eating in the cafes. This article says bus drivers have access to the cafe…

Google was at the career fair at my university. I went and talked to them. They said apply online. I did that, did phone interviews and got an internship. So at least for Google, t…

I've heard multiple times that taking food home is "ungoogly". I can't remember exactly where, but I think at least once in one of the many training/ethics videos I had to watch.