If you think the title is too cheesy, check out Subnixus’ entry on Google: The Communist Search Engine.

While Google is fighting nail and tooth over privacy against the United States Department of Justice, it caved in to the fleeting request of the People’s Republic of China to censor search results. (The poor chinks won’t be able to use Blogger or GMail too.)

See related stories:

• Bush Administration Demands Search Data; Google Says No; AOL, MSN & Yahoo Said Yes
• Feds after Google data
• In Case About Google’s Secrets, Yours Are Safe
• Google agrees to censor search results in China.
• Version of Google in China Won’t Offer E-Mail or Blogs
• Don’t Look Now, But It’s Happening

I’m sure Google has a very simple explanation to this.

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