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Google May Acquiesce to Chinese Censorship

Eight years ago, Google refused to continue its four-year long practice of censoring search results for Chinese users and subsequently pulled out of China. Now, leaked documents show that Google has been stealthily building in-roads back into China for over a year with its Project Dragonfly, which features a custom Android app for Chinese users that will censor terms deemed unacceptable to the Chinese government, and could be launched in the next six to nine months. Ryan Gallagher