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> Phrases will be banned/filtered from all digital services in China relating to it.

Google was complying with, what I assume is the law in, China and censoring searches for things China doesn't want talked about. Google has since left China, apparently bowing down wasn't enough.



In 2010 Google decided to stop censoring results in China.

>We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

Disclosure: I work at Google.




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