Chinese Regime Launches State-Run Search Engine

The Chinese regime has launched a new state-run search engine on Tuesday. It’s already been reported to filter out more information than other Chinese sites.

Panguso is run by Xinhua News Agency and China Mobile Ltd. Both are owned by the ruling Communist Party.

Panguso provides users with information approved by the regime. In some instances it seems limited, even compared to other Chinese sites under censorship control.

For example in China’s largest search engine Baidu, a search on Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo brings up articles criticizing him, while the same search on Panguso doesn’t bring any results.

China has the world’s largest online population, but its 450 million internet users are also subjected to one of the most tightly controlled cyber space by the ruling regime.

Last year Google closed its China-based service because it no longer wished to comply with the Chinese regime’s censorship rules.