Google Caves, Will Introduce A ‘Censored’ Search Engine Up To China’s Oppressive ‘Standards’

Thank God we live in the Land of the Free. Every time I see a story like this, I become even MORE grateful.

Google is planning to introduce a “censored” search engine for China. You know. Since China hates free speech. I mean, we can’t have people reading stuff about freedom and democracy and religion and HUMAN RIGHTS. Are you crazy? People cannot handle that kind of information! The Chinese government knows best!

Google’s project has been dubbed “Dragonfly,” and it has been underway for the last year.

Google’s search service cannot currently be accessed by most internet users in China because it is blocked by the country’s so-called Great Firewall. The app Google is building for China will comply with the country’s strict censorship laws, restricting access to content that Xi Jinping’s Communist Party regime deems unfavorable.

The Intercept goes on to point out that the Chinese government currently censors information on “political opponents, free speech, sex, news, and academic studies.”

So basically…everything of substance. Truth. Freedom. Silly memes, what have you. They cannot have Chinese people laughing at memes mocking communism!!! Sorry you don’t understand that.

It bans websites about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, for instance, and references to “anticommunism” and “dissidents.” Mentions of books that negatively portray authoritarian governments, like George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, have been prohibited on Weibo, a Chinese social media website. The country also censors popular Western social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as American news organizations such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

But the new Google app will be TOTES accommodating. It will automatically filter out all the censored stuff, so the people will basically feel like they’re free, except no they aren’t.

When a person carries out a search, banned websites will be removed from the first page of results, and a disclaimer will be displayed stating that “some results may have been removed due to statutory requirements.” Examples cited in the documents of websites that will be subject to the censorship include those of British news broadcaster BBC and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

China, you guys. China. The free flow of information is sooooooo overrated.