Google Stops Censoring Its Searches in China

[rowyn]

I don't know how much good this will do in the long run -- or how much difference it will make. Still, this news makes me happy. <3

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[telnar.livejournal.com]

I was also quite happy to read that this morning.

The uncensored information may not reach Chinese internet users without access to a proxy server, but the fact of censorship will become more obvious.

[rowyn]

I kinda sympathized with Google's original stance of "well, better to play by their rules and get a foothold by which perhaps even censored search will allow better access to information than they've got now." That may even be right for all I know. But refusing to censor at all seems like the right thing, at a gut level.