Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo cave to China censorship




In 2005, at the request of the tyranical Chinese government, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all built censorship into China-specific versions of their web-search software. Search results are filtered, and searches containing words like democracy and human rights will produce warnings that the user is employing illegal language.

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Esquire, Feb 2006, p. 122