i remember when i was a kid, we used to make google eyes, and it was fun and silly, and somehow so distantly innocent. now google eyes connotes evil, so google is like the eye of evil. yet they are my host. so kids, who must grow up so fast, you must be in it, but not of it. i know you can dig it. i know you can.

google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in china that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, the intercept can reveal.
the project – code-named dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a december 2017 meeting between google’s ceo sundar pichai and a top chinese government official.

(the intercept)