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Rest assured agencies in the U.S. can (and do) do all of that and more to U.S. Google today with a simple warrant or takedown notice.

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> with a simple warrant

See the difference?

You are putting a lot of faith in the police and judges that issue those things.

Just a little bit more than my faith in “no oversight whatsoever”, yes.

and there is no transparency needed, warrants don't have to be public in most countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

Not really?

Americans have way more faith in America being the good guys than is warranted.

US is liberal democracy, China is not and how much information is censored on Google.com if any? And did US government use Google to target individuals or ethnic groups within US?

>how much information is censored on Google.com if any?

Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....

Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.

No its “intellectual property” “protection” based on some capitalist or whatever ideology

Same thing, different beneficiaries in power

Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.

And Google gave the NSA direct connections into their data centers in order to spy on US citizens in secret.

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