According to The Intercept, August 1, 2018 Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest... Google’s search service cannot currently be accessed by most internet users in China because it is blocked by the country’s so-called Great Firewall. The app Google is building for China will comply with the country’s strict censorship laws, restricting access to content that Xi Jinping’s Communist Party regime deems unfavorable.
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Censorship and restricting access to information is always a bad idea. When a major search engine / corporation, like Google, builds a search engine with built-in censorship... what does this say about support for human rights and civil liberties?
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