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No, they're pro-people-who-call-themselves-Communist-and-also-have-a-lot-of-geopolitical-power-and-market-share. China is most certainly a capitalist state through and through, and Google is a money-grubbing company whose sole motive is profit. It really isn't hard to talk about these things in frank terms without resorting to silly culture-war-style name-calling.

Eh. Eventually monopolist/oligarchical capitalism and top-down socialism become isomorphic to each other.

"Top-down socialism" is an oxymoron.

Perhaps it is, per the textbooks. In practice, it's the norm.

Google left the mainland Chinese market long ago and all of its services are blocked there.

The most likely explanation is that some mainlander inside Google has been pushing for this with the "this is racist and hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" argument.

Or one of the business units of the CCP is putting lateral pressure on Google. Or an organized CCP/PLA operation to mass report the term.

What a strange thing to say on a public forum, when we can just use Google to find information that directly contradicts your claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#2016%E2%80%93pres...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

> ...we can just use Google to find information that directly contradicts your claim.

Not really. Google hasn't returned to the mainland market. Youtube is blocked.

That little bit of developer interaction or Project Dragonfly - whatever its state may be - does not contradict that.

If you believe this sort of censorship is ordered from the top in order to get back into the mainland market, that's fine. I still prefer my explanation.

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