[DominikR]

Strange to see how Google, a company that once refused to do business in China in order to not have to engage in censorship, now openly seeks to implement censorship in the West.

And a bunch of "liberals" on a hacker news who in all other cases would rail against censorship on the Internet happily supporting censorship on the Internet.

I'm astonished that someone like Sergey Brin would even allow this to happen, considering that his family immigrated from a country that censored information it did not like for the exact same reasons in order to impoverish and control its population.

This is it for me, I'm moving away from all Google services.

[ern]

Google is a private company that can choose how to make money. If it chooses to not show advertising on any particular category of site, that's a commercial decision. If its shareholders or customers are upset they can unseat the board or find another provider respectively (as you wish to do). A competitor may even see a commercial opportunity and make a business model based off carrying ads on fake news sites-Google doesn't do ads on porn sites, and yet those sites seem to be doing OK on ad revenue.

[mr_spothawk]

Imagine the difference if it had been titled: "Google has agreed that it will stop serving ads to Chinese sites which are unfriendly to President Li's conception of Chinese culture and values."

[DominikR]

I'm pretty sure now that this mass psychosis in the West will most definitely lead to civil war.

There are just too many people who can't seem to accept democracy or liberty if it doesn't go their way.

[Pxtl]

Censorship is about silencing uncomfortable truths. This is about declining to fund uncomfortable falsehoods.

[DominikR]

This is _exactly_ how the Sowjets justified their own censorship.

It's all falsehoods by ideological degenerates or by Western saboteurs and other collaborators with the enemy and therefore must be censored in order to protect society.