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Did China 'Change' Google?
Did China 'Change' Google?

Author Stephen Levy discusses the internal struggle that ensued from Google's decision to provide censored search results in China. He explains that in order to justify their decision, they developed a "moral spreadsheet" to calculate the good and evil they would do by providing filtered information to the Chinese public.
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