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Google Images China Censors - Friend and Foe?

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“For Internet users in China, Google remains the only major search engine that does not censor any web pages.”


Google Images China censors hundreds of thousands to millions of photos – from friend to foe. For example, no single photo shows for politician and “friend” Deng Xiaoping in a search for his name, censorship when they discussed what the competition does... when they do it themselves, they use words like “delete your query from the search box, omit the censorship disclosure, tell you there’s no occurrence of these words on the web, and show women in bikini instead.

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