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Google blames faulty algorithm for blurring Hong Kong protest graffiti on Street View

The news site reported yesterday that two spray-painted slogans on Nathan Road, the main thoroughfare in the urban area of Kowloon, had been obfuscated on Google Street View, which was updated in Hong Kong last year.

But the reports of it obfuscating political slogans will further fears that western tech firms are bowing to Beijings censorship demands.

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