[Intercept] Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: August 9, 2018 at 11:46:46 GMT+9
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] [Intercept] Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
>
>
> [Intercept] Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine
> in China
>
> https://theintercept.com/2018/08/08/google-censorship-china-blacklist/
>
>      GOOGLE ANALYZED SEARCH terms entered into a Beijing-based
>    website to help develop blacklists for a censored search
>    engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to
>    confidential documents seen by The Intercept.  Engineers
>    working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com,
>    a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
>    Unlike Google.com and other Google services, such as YouTube,
>    265.com is not blocked in China by the country's so-called
>    Great Firewall, which restricts access to websites deemed
>    undesirable by the ruling Communist Party regime.  265.com was
>    founded in 2003 by Cai Wensheng, a Chinese entrepreneur known
>    as the "the godfather of Chinese webmasters." In 2008, Google
>    acquired the website, which it now operates as a subsidiary.
>    Records show that 265.com is hosted on Google servers, but its
>    physical address is listed under the name of the "Beijing
>    Guxiang Information and Technology Co.," which is based out of
>    an office building in northwest Beijing's Haidian district.
>
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>
> RELATED: "Google Haters Rejoice at Google's Reported New Courtship of China" -
>
> https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/08/03/google-haters-rejoice-at-googles-reported-new-courtship-of-china
>
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