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Google shut down Chinese censorship project but won’t rule out working with China

By Jerry Dunleavy
Published July 17, 2019 2:54am ET
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Google shut down Chinese censorship project but won’t rule out working with China
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A top Google executive revealed today that the global tech firm had shut down its effort to build a search engine that would comply with the repressive censorship requirements of the Communist Chinese regime.

But Karan Bhatia would not commit to Google never attempting another such censorship project in China in the future in a tense exchange with Sen. Josh Hawley.

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