When South Korea passed a law that requires large websites with user-generated contents to collect user's personal information, Google simply disabled the uploading and commenting features in YouTube for Korean users and encouraged them to set their locale to some other country. This continued for a year, shining a spotlight on South Korea's stupid law until the government gave up and exempted YouTube from the law.

This sounds like Doraemon's hands. Doraemon is a robotic cat from the future in a 1970s manga.

No, that would be Google Scribe.

"Vetted by experts" in the social sciences means nothing. Anyone heard of the Sokal affair?

I've been using this for about 6 months and it's very useful. Mail from people I read and reply to more often usually percolate to the top. Sometimes unimportant mail are marked as "important" but I can downgrade them. Just keep an eye on the "Everything else" pile once in a while, sometimes important mail are mislabeled.

Vietnamese dropped the clunky Chinese characters for a Latin-based writing system a hundred years ago and never looked back.

Google's office in Irvine, CA on Google Maps is more than a mile from its actual location. The office specifically tells its visitors to disregard Google Maps directions when they want to visit it.

Based on their past behavior I'd say you are wrong.

Seems like Slashdot's already outed you, even when you're posting as anonymous. This submission shows up on your comment history.

Ask any Vietnamese what they mean when they say "Saigon", and I can tell you that they'll tell you they mean the city now renamed to HCMC. The pedantic meaning of Saigon is only used by bureaucrats.

Considering that this government already attacked critical websites using a DDOS attack, it's not out of the question for them to attempt something like Green Dam.