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Well, I'll say "Google is not censoring any search results" but it is censoring any search terms, right?


No. It is declining to actively push certain terms on the user.


> It is declining to actively push certain terms on the user.

Let's say a search engine in China was obligated to "decline actively pushing a certain query", would we not call that censorship? Can someone explain my semantic hangup?


Well, I think that's it and you're right.




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