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Once a company becomes comfortable with censorship, search manipulation in the name of their own politically motivated agenda... censorship and search manipulation can be repackaged if the price is right. There are many here (as well as those 1,400 Googlers who signed the letter) who turned a blind-eye toward censorship and public manipulation when they agreed with the politics. This is the end result. Sadly... it's…
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I live in the EU where there's no freedom of speech and Google and the rest of tech companies are already being told about what they have to censor. I don't see how this is anything new. It's only in the news because it's China.
What makes you say there is no freedom of speech in the EU? I also live there but I do not experience it like that.
Since this censored version of the search engine will only work in China, I don't see how they are "handing the future of the Internet" to them.
«In May, Google quietly removed “Don’t be evil” from the text of its corporate code of conduct, deleting a catchphrase that had been associated with the company since 2000.» So it is now official, Google can not longer be considered as "not Evil". And we know this thanks to this sentence that has finally served as a warrant canary.
If no one got nothing of value to add, there's always some reference to "evil" and suddenly everyone has an opinion on a Google related topic.
If Google is going to be more cooperative, there are more than just censorship that Google and Alphabet can provide.
Personally I would flee China but the relocation would require a higher-than-medium paying job which is difficult to get as a foreigner in most of the Countries, and I believe the status also applies many others.
«In May, Google quietly removed “Don’t be evil” from the text of its corporate code of conduct, deleting a catchphrase that had been associated with the company since 2000.» So it is now official, Google can not longer be considered as "not Evil". And we know this thanks to this sentence that has finally served as a warrant canary.
Don't people ever grow tired of this nonsense? If no one got nothing of value to add, there's always some reference to "evil" and suddenly everyone has an opinion on a Google related topic.
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I presume that is on the premissis that every other state / regime will be able to leverage that deal between Google & China to black out whatever they think is not PC in their country.
Most of them already do this the slippery slope was started with Europe with it's right to be forgotten US with its Dmca. It's funny how many people have forgotten this if those things can be censored by Google because of these countries laws why is results cencsoring for China under Chinese laws is any different.