Google which used to take pride in claiming the it does not censor any web pages has been already grounded in China. However, Google says that the amount of information that it censors is just close to only two percent that Chinese authorities have banned.



Interestingly, the censored words on the Chinese version of Google search engine include all the variables of the word ‘democracy’. ‘Communism’ has also been censored, but for the obvious reasons.



The famous word ‘Sex’ has been allowed by the authorities but ’sexy’ has been kept under surveillance. Keeping ‘Sovereignty’ under censorship is understandable but censoring ‘toaster’ is quite puzzling.



Following are the few words that return search results censored as agreed with the Chinese authorities:



abreast, abundant, acceptable, accusation, accuse, accused, adjacent, admirable, admiration, admire, admit, admitted, adorable, adult, affected, agree, airline, aisle, alive, allah, allegation, alligator, allow, ally, almost, alphabetical, ambitious, amir, amongst, amour, analogue, ancestry, ancient, anticipate, appeal, appear, appearance.



Does it make any sense?

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