Almost immediately after Google entered China in 2006, Brin found the compromise hard to stomach. Chinese officials demanded that Google sanitize search results for any mention of the Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, and the bloody 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square. That much Google had anticipated. But soon that list grew to include anything that offended the Chinese Communist Party’s taste and “socialist values”—talk of time travel, reincarnation, and later even Winnie-the-Pooh made the blacklist. When Mountain View didn’t move fast enough to block offensive content, Chinese officials took to
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