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Google offers a highly censored and surveilled search app for China. The slippery slope down this path is quite steep. Soon they will surrender to lesser dictatorships.
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/
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"Sources familiar with Dragonfly said the search platform also appeared to have been tailored to replace weather and air pollution data with information provided directly by an unnamed source in Beijing. The Chinese government has a record of manipulating details about pollution in the country’s cities. One Google source said the company had built a system, integrated as part of Dragonfly, that was “essentially hardcoded to force their [Chinese-provided] data.”"