<story><title>Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/1091cf20-5209-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626294</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornmama</author><text>Somehow I think the Chinese people are better off with access to Google than without. It’s not like Google is actively developing next gen censorship and oppression technology by applying a url blacklist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&amp;gt; Somehow I think the Chinese people are better off with access to Google than without.&lt;p&gt;I think the Chinese people are better off without the Chinese government having access to Google. Google is at it&amp;#x27;s core an advertising and surveillance company. Its true customers are not the users but the advertisers. Political advertising (AKA propaganda) would only get more powerful in China with Google as an outlet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/1091cf20-5209-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626294</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornmama</author><text>Somehow I think the Chinese people are better off with access to Google than without. It’s not like Google is actively developing next gen censorship and oppression technology by applying a url blacklist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anovikov</author><text>I guess Google would be better off building a technology that comprehensively defeats any attempts of censorship? That way Chinese users will also have google, but an unrestricted. Maybe by becoming openly hostile to China in the most direct sense, like recognizing Taiwan as the only China. Google has resources to do it.</text></comment>