Good for him but this is not very helpful. Google needs to be brought to admit that freedom of information is not their business, and at a minimum they should be pressured to be transparent about the kind of stuff they censor, inside and outside of china. (Pity that GDPR did not cover that). Thanks to recent events, its no longer taboo to say you censor stuff, and the question needs to move to who benefits from that and who loses. Childish responses about "99 percent" are just that, infantilizing and insulting.
That's often illegal, be it "National Security Letters" in USA, or anything in China.
If they slap on a generic disclaimer "This Serach Engine may censor results known to the State of California to cause cancer or known to the People's Republic of China to cause civil discontent", that helps no one.
people have become so accustomed to censored things, and often so supporting of them , that i wouldnt be surprised if the NSA just went ahead and be public with it. As for china, google can be transparent about it to the rest of the world, they are a US company.
> As for china, google can be transparent about it to the rest of the world, they are a US company.
And then Google would make enemies with the CCP, which kind of defeats the purpose of giving in to their demands for censorship and the identification of dissidents.
You want GDPR to remove censorship or are you wanting where results are removed due to GDPR for an indication that the removal took place due to GDPR? If the latter, honestly, I'd imagine that would be something Google would want to put in place as they'd try to position GDPR as a form of censorship and attack it in a way that users may feel inclined to change their view on the policy.
