Google quietly undoes censorship notification feature for Chinese users

Herdict Blog 2013-01-14

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On January 4, 2013, greatfire.org (a Herdict partner) broke the news that in early December 2012, Google quietly removed a feature that informed Chinese search users about which of their search terms may be subject to government censorship. Google implemented the feature in May 2012, and provided a notice to users when their search query [...]

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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/herdict/2013/01/14/google-quietly-undoes-censorship-notification-feature-for-chinese-users/

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Marianna Mao

Date tagged:

01/14/2013, 15:04

Date published:

01/14/2013, 08:00