I've never lived in China but this immediately sounds like my (naive) idea of what it must be like: you're only allowed to consume what the government has approved.
I think this is setting a dangerous precedence.
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I think this is setting a dangerous precedence.
Google in particular has been very "active," not to forget also: https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-will-ban-anything-ag... ("video that 'goes against' WHO guidance on the pandemic will be blocked")
Google didn't used to be like this. Remember the glory days of organising the world's information, to make it universally accessible? Apparently Google have forgotten. Back when most people who worked there were adults there wasn't any internal pressure to censor stuff because they understood where that path would lead. But a foolish choice to keep hiring indefinitely, just because they could, meant they ran out of adults to hire a long time ago and were forced to rely far more heavily on sucking up the flow of new grads. They go from one university-like environment in which results hardly matter to another, working on the long tail of me-too products nobody cares about, searching for meaning. And they find it in "doing good" and "fighting evil", as they see it, which given the academic "never criticise a fellow professor" mindset they've been steeped in translates naturally to deleting anything that implicitly or otherwise criticises academics (sorry, experts).