[MichaelSalib]

That's (maybe) great for folks in China, but what about folks outside? Is the rest of the world really better off if Google can easily be bullied and manipulated by the Chinese government?

Once they start taking orders from Beijing about what results to show in China, why shouldn't they take orders about what to show in the US? After all, the Chinese government controls their access to an enormous market worth lots of money. Will we be able to find articles about the concentration camps for Muslims in China after they're operating in China?

[Aunche]

> Once they start taking orders from Beijing about what results to show in China, why shouldn't they take orders about what to show in the US?

At the end of the day, Google is an American company, and the US won't let that happen. Right now, Chinese companies are given a free monopoly in their home country, which gives them billions of dollars that they can use to purchase foreign companies. China would a much easier time pressuring Tencent and Baidu than Google or Microsoft. This is all implying that China cares about what foreigners think of them, which they don't.

[gaius]

Google is an American company, and the US won't let that happen

Ahem https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/15...

The price of access to the Chinese market is to parrot the Party line globally.

[username90]

> Is the rest of the world really better off if Google can easily be bullied and manipulated by the Chinese government?

I think you overestimate the influence they would have, have you noticed Microsoft or Apple getting bullied by the Chinese government? Both companies bends over backwards to please China, if they don't get affected much why would Google?