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How does refraining from providing any search access whatsoever to a country with a population of 1.4 billion fit the mission of "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful?"

One would assume it implies offering services to people in China is a goal. Perhaps "do the right thing" is open to interpretation.

> Organic search results skewed by ad payments or censorship is antithetical to Google's mission.

Has Google's policy of blocking images of pedophilia from search results in countries where the laws and morals of the country forbid those images compromised its mission? Or is there room in the mission for the nuance that different people have different common standards?




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