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China Has Moved On Without Google
The country has moved on. Oh, yeah, there's still that censorship thing, too.
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Google wants to reopen for business in China more than six years after the company sharply curtailed its operations there.
There are a couple of big problems with a return to China, apart from the obvious one of complying with censorship restrictions: The country's internet users have learned to live without Google. And Google itself glosses over the cyberattacks that contributed to its retreat in the first place.