Which makes it even more relevant, as western search engines have already been thoroughly censored.
Google should just de-list well-known torrent sites completely.
Your nit feels analogous to people criticizing Snowden for needing to flee to Russia. Despite Russia engaging in totalitarianism (like every other country), pragmatically they can help us mitigate our own country's totalitarianism. Thus even as a foreigner looking in, it's directly disappointing to see the content cartels firm up their grasp in another sovereign state.
Sure! The way you worded your initial response was so broad that it implied that non-Western search engines aren't censored, and all I did was seek to clarify whether or not that was what you were saying. There's no "whataboutism" to simply seeking to understand a statement someone is making, nor do I disagree with the broader sentiment that you make at the end of the post I'm replying to now.
For who doesn't know it, it was a search engine for cracks and serial numbers. The name was a pun on altavista which was one of the first search engines for the web.