Here's How Google Maps Is Different In Other Countries
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Published: Fri Dec 06 2019
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This is old news. This was the case well before Google exited the Chinese market. All of google's services in China except search are online and accessible in China if you append the CN top level domain. The difference is that they aren't doing the airline thing and making the changes global. It was better when companies were free to be two-faced. China doesn't even allow that anymore. They wanna control shit in their borders? Fine. But the backlash is because they are trying to affect our opinions. This is why nobody complains about Vietnam.
I still upvoted because Fuck the CCP.
Remember also that in the 00s, Google was the only one of the big three actors trying to make things right. They got locked out of China in return, and received zero recognition in the West for their efforts. Hardly surprising they might go back and say okay, we'll play by your rules.
Issue: China's constitution has security article that allows govt to view user data held by internet services. How does a US firm respond to this when it could be used to silence govt critics?
Yahoo's solution: sell your China service to Alibaba, wash your hands of it all. So brave.
Microsoft: delete your users' data and webpage contents yourself. Their data no longer exists, but then again you've just de facto censored their speech, saving the PRC govt the bother.
Google: host their servers outside of China so the PRC doesn't have jurisdiction to seize them. Obey PRC censored search rules for the .cn extension, but keep the uncensored search results available at .hk so that savvy mainlanders can figure out what their govt is hiding from them.
In the end the Chinese outright blocked Google and homebrewed its domestic services to mimic Google's functions. Ten years later Google goes back to China since literally everybody else is doing it, and cue the outraged pearl clutching and "whut happened to DO NOE EVILL???"
I recommend using OpenStreetMap instead.
Yea it's an interesting topic but framing it as some form of desperate market-place move on Google's behalf is a a bit shortsighted.
Also since when does Google Maps work within China's borders? I lived there 2014-2016 and it did not work without a VPN.