As a result, the three-year ban on YouTube by the Pakistani government was subsequently lifted.In July 2017, YouTube began modifying suggested videos to debunk terrorist ideologies.In June 2019, YouTube updated its hate speech policy to prohibit hateful and supremacist work, to limit the spread of violent extremist content online. The company's devotion to web freedom, critics charged, was being subverted by a willingness to comply with Chinese censorship in return for access to a huge potential customer base.The dynamic changed in January 2010, when Google charged that Chinese hackers had targeted Google and more than 20 other Western companies and compromised the email accounts of Chinese dissidents living abroad.Beijing denied that it had been involved in the attacks, but the incident sparked a political fight with Washington.A laptop screen displaying the landing page google.cn, which linked to an uncensored Hong Kong site on July 1, 2010, in Beijing.About three months later, Google made good on a threat to stop offering search in China.Academics, university students and other researchers relied heavily on Google's search services to access information not available through Chinese search engines like Baidu. Co-founders Brin and Larry Page have adopted less hands-on roles, though they still serve on the company’s board of directors.Google’s China rapproachment has been spearheaded by Pichai, Google’s current CEO, a 46-year-old Indian-American who took the helm in October 2015. It currently offers just a few services in the country — Google Translate, a file organizing program and a new AI game. Google’s censorship disclaimer was a modest victory for transparency. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates. This did not include China and Iran who had blocked their site entirely.In February 2003, Google stopped showing the advertisements of In April 2014, though Google accepts ads from the pro-choice abortion lobbying group In September 2018, Google has removed from its YouTube website a paid advertisement placed by supporters of Russian opposition urging Russians to participate in a protest set for September 9. The source said that they had moral and ethical concerns about Google’s role in the censorship, which is being planned by a handful of top executives and managers at the company with no public scrutiny.“I’m against large companies and governments collaborating in the oppression of their people, and feel like transparency around what’s being done is in the public interest,” the source said, adding that they feared “what is done in China will become a template for many other nations.”Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based researcher with human rights group Amnesty International, told The Intercept that Google’s decision to comply with the censorship would be “a big disaster for the information age.”“This has very serious implications not just for China, but for all of us, for freedom of information and internet freedom,” said Poon. Baidu and other search engines in China … According to sources familiar with the plans, timing for the app’s release will depend on two main factors: approval from the Chinese government and confidence within Google that its app will be better than the search service offered by its main competitor in China, Baidu.Google insiders say that it is not known when the company will obtain the approval from officials in Beijing because an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China has slowed the process.