Freedom: China blocks search tool that ensures user 'privacy'

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China blocks search tool that ensures user 'privacy'

WASHINGTON--China has begun blocking the privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, which avoids storing user data or tracking online activity, according to the company and security researchers.
DuckDuckGo, which gained popularity following revelations of U.S. government surveillance online, has only a tiny share of the search engine market but recently became an option as the default for iPhones in the new iOS 8 mobile platform.

The company prides itself as "the search engine that doesn't track you," says its website.

DuckDuckGo has been blocked since Sept. 3, according to GreatFire.org, which tracks web services in China.

DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg confirmed the news in an email to AFP, saying, "we aren't sure why" the search engine was blocked.

He added that DuckDuckGo "is now available in iOS 8 and (Apple's) OS X Mavericks and Mountain Lion and all of our focus is on that."

Barry Schwartz, a consultant who blogs on Search Engine Land, said that "it is unclear as to why China has blocked the search engine but it might be due to them not complying with their filtering regulations."

China blocks search tool that ensures user 'privacy' - The China Post
We keep hearing from our Chinese posters that there is immense freedom in China to include Internet chats and so on and taking on the wrongs of society.

Well, the truth is that its subtly controlled wherein the anonymity of the Internet that the world enjoys, is not acceptable in China so that they can swoop down on you and midnight and take you into the Laogai.

And given the Chinese justice system, of which I have appended a thread and posts, you can kiss yourself goodbye from the your gilded Chinese cage and into the dungeons of hell.
 

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