Google doesn't censor antiwar propaganda.
https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-responds-to-cpac-censorshi...
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-expanded-its-censorship-of-...
https://reclaimthenet.org/russia-continues-to-order-google-t...
In US they pretend to "decide" to censor things "on their own" because 1st amendment prevents the government from officially demanding censorship.
Can you please edit name-calling / swipes like that out of your HN comments? It breaks the site guidelines and weakens your point.
Highly emotional tone changes how the data affects the reader. If he is right, I would surely better remember next time that Google is in the same ballpark due to the insult hitting hard. If he is wrong, I will know better to ignore such claims in the future without a direct quote or something else that consumes less time than reading an entire linked article.
A quote from the second one: "cumulative 45 percent decrease in traffic from Google searches"
When a company puts Jon Lennon's Merry Xmas (War is Over) behind age restriction banner[1], the question stops being "Is there censorship?" and becomes about the logic of such censorship.
>The third one was temporary until Google stopped operating in Russia altogether.
They've censored other things on behest of the Russian government for years[2]. Again, I cannot fathom how people on a tech website like HN can be unaware of such things. This is common knowledge broadly covered on mainstream websites.
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[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-john-lennon-war-is-over-wa...
[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/google-censors-search-results-after-...
Even in the translation case (which I assume you mean by your "excuse" remark) the original source is still available as is. I am not even sure from the description what translation team it was talking about and what does it have to do with Google exactly. "translate company text for the Russian market" this passage sounds like it talks about translating Google's own interfaces, help pages, press releases, or support articles to Russian. E.g. no external voice is being censored.