Google is returning to China with a browser that will censor what the Chinese want. That has made the news in several places. What is absent from this discussion is that China did not want Google to just censor in China. Some of you remember that China asked Google to censor everywhere in the world, and that was why Google said no. China must have modified that ridiculous position and come down to earth. It is one thing to require a company to censor what its China audience sees, and another to get them to censor outside China.
Google doesn't have the resources to censor everything in China without a lot of help. Software alone can't do the job. The Chinese are too clever about getting around those kinds of controls. What software knows what a burning candle or a chair on the beach means? We shall see what China demands in the way of support for this project.
The referenced article above mentions the employees of Google being hell bent to stop working on a U.S. government AI project for drones, while teaming in China for AI in a joint lab. What do they think that AI will be used for? Now they want to go back to China and support censorship. That is not the Google most of us remember.
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