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The Intercept reported Wednesday that Google plans to launch a search app in China that would block sensitive websites and search terms to comply with Chinese government censorship.
The Google ban in China is a complex matter with wide-ranging effects. It results from strict censorship rules, the Chinese government’s claim of digital sovereignty, its backing of homegrown tech titans, data security worries, and well-publicized cyberattacks.
Google China’s search engine was launched in 2006 and abruptly pulled from mainland China in 2010 amid a major hack of the company and disputes over censorship of search results.
Censorship is why. Google effectively shut down its Chinese operations after it discovered a cyberattack from within the country that targeted it and dozens of other companies.
If it wins government approval to offer its search engine in China, Google won't have some typical assets, like rich user data and integration with its browser.
Over the past decade, China has blocked Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, as well as thousands of other foreign websites, including The New York Times and Chinese Wikipedia. A plethora...
By cutting itself out of China, Google has lost a seriously valuable territory with 772 million internet users in exchange for the status symbol of being an advocate of free speech....
Google is developing a version of its search engine that will conform to China's censorship laws, reports say. The company shut down the engine in 2010, complaining that free speech was...
The ongoing trade war instigated by President Trump would make Google launching new services in China politically unwelcome on both sides of the Great Firewall.
Key Points. Billionaire investor Peter Thiel has accused Google of working with the Chinese military, and says the U.S. government should investigate the company. Google denies those...