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frebord·

This is so over blown. Providing Chinese people with slightly censored search is better than no Google search at all.

Think how fucking much you use google every day, it's easy for you to sit here and yell human rights violation.

FFS Google already censors your search results here in USA, why are you complaining that they will also do it in China.

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Does Google censor results according to how I want it to (SafeSearch) or according to how my government wants it to?

Both. You won't have much luck using US Google to find child porn, bomb-making manuals, terrorist propaganda, etc.

>FFS Google already censors your search results here in USA, why are you complaining that they will also do it in China.

Yes, Google is censoring here. Yes, I would appreciate them not doing it other places.

Not for human rights issues, but I've done what I can to eliminate google from my life. So, by your reasoning I'm 'allowed' to make comments. That said, I fully support Google firing people that don't do the job they are asked to. Shades of gray, everywhere!

Yes, I think the majority of the posts here are very patronizing to Chinese people. To quote one of the few people in this thread who is actually Chinese (seemuch):

"I think you need to stop telling Chinese people what they need. We know what we need."

If what they need is political censorship, complete with tools to find online dissenters and jail them (remember, one of the charges is that Dragonfly links search queries to specific people), they can damn well make it themselves, or find another source for it. I don't see why we should allow an American company to be involved in something like that. Principles matter.

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