Google does deal with China: sells out on freedom of speech

[Konovalov]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...009397,00.html

Google has has engineered its search facilities to restrict Chinese people from searching for information such as Tibetan independence or the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

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The search terms blocked will include what are known as the "the three t’s and the two c’s": references to Taiwanese or Tibetan independence, the Tiananmen massacre, cult-related searches, which may trigger reference to the banned Falun Gong organisation, and information about Communist party supremacy.

This is disgraceful but I guess it wouldn't be the first or the last time that morals have been swept aside in the quest for greater market share.