Google China

Google sign in shadows at conference in Shanghai

This Google engineer was asked to create a censored version of Google News for China. He refused.

Arts, Culture & Media

Vijay Boyapati says he ‘immediately felt very uncomfortable’ when he say censorship requirements for the project.

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