Google’s Brin Cops to Plan to Reclaim Lost Decade in China -- Bloomberg

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"At Thursday’s meeting, Pichai argued that depriving Chinese people of access to Google products wouldn’t help. “I genuinely do believe we have a positive impact when we engage around the world and I don't see any reason why that would be different in China,” he said, according to a transcript of the meeting provided to Bloomberg.

Brin, who had driven the exodus in 2010, told the Wall Street Journal at the time that China’s policies of censorship and surveillance shared the "same earmarks of totalitarianism" as Soviet Russia, where he was born. On Thursday, he was more equivocal. He told employees in a rambling  explanation that questions about projects in China come up “every year or so” and “we experiment with what it might look like.” “There’s a handful of things we have been able to ship in China and that’s great,” he said. “You know, it’s slow-going and complicated.”"

Google’s Brin Cops to Plan to Reclaim Lost Decade in China --  Bloomberg