Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

Post by throwaway2048 » Sat, Aug 04, 2018, 5:20 AM UTC

smsm42 wrote: post #291

bilbo0s wrote: post #140

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"...Google is the destroyer of privacy. Google tracks their users at an unprecedented level in the whole history of humanity..." In fairness, you never had a problem with that privacy invasion before. You still respected them in spite of the fact that they were Gestapo-like privacy invaders. As evidenced by your claim that, "...the fact that Google pulled their search engine out of China, defying their censorship att…

Please stay away from Nazi comparisons like "Gestapo", unless it's actually comparable to actual actions of the Nazis. While Google privacy stance may be reprehensible and worrying, these privacy violations do not, last as I checked, imprison people in concentration camps, torture people, perpetuate ethnic cleansing on industrial scale and murder or imprison everyone opposing them. So let's please keep it in the sani…

Post by owpra » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 9:12 AM UTC

bunderbunder wrote: post #116

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Do you remember the "Don't Be Evil" campaign? Google literally rose to prominence with this as their slogan. I would expect a company whose slogan is "Don't Be Evil" to completely shun a country who wants censored search.

Funny you should mention that -- https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/2540...

Post by extralego » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 2:58 AM UTC

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joshuamorton wrote: post #418

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Sure, but the corollary to that is that security is complicated. Do you really expect the average user to have a more secure system than what they would otherwise have. In other words, is a Gmail account more or less secure than what you would have otherwise. I think the answer depends, but it certainly isn't always "less". There's some information that you have to store somewhere, and is having a world class securit…

I'm just saying not saving data is simpler than saving data and avoids the complication. The average user doesn't need 99% of the data that google saves about them and would have no reason to store it themselves. You can have phishing protection and the world class security team while also not saving the unnecessary data resulting in an even more secure model. Protonmail seems to be just as secure without requiring d…