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After several days’ effort. Finally, I finished reading The Google Story.
Eh…
What I wanna mention is its Chapter 24 : The China Syndrome

But getting more deeply involved in China posed problems too.The country was ruled by a sprawling Communist bureaucracy that actively monitored, restricted, and censored the Internet. Doing business there ran in the face of the founders’ core principles of providing free, unfettered access to information. Since 2000, the company’s approach had been to provide unfiltered Chinese-language search results that users anywhere in the world could access through Google.com. Because Google operated this site outside of China’s borders, the government had no say in what could or could not be displayed. The catch was that within China, certain links from Google were blocked–though users were able to see the nature of the information the government was prohibiting access to. The blacklist consisted largely of pornographic and political Web sites, particularly those dealing with human rights, Tibet, Taiwan, and the Tiananmen Square uprising. Blocking was done by a massive set of sophisticated government-run filters–dubbed “the Great Firewall of China”–that often slowed the Web traffic passing through it.

I wonder whether the Chinese edition of The Google Story still contains these things or not.
I think it doesn’t.

So, this is the fact,
the fact we are facing in this country.

Start new reading plan: Outliers.
Which I couldn’t guess how much time will I spend on it….