Hong Kong requested that Google remove a protest song from its top search results for Hong Kong’s national anthem and replace it with China’s national anthem, but the request was denied, the city’s security chief said Monday.
Hong Kong’s security secretary, Chris Tang, said that Google refused to change the top search results for Hong Kong’s national anthem because they were generated by an algorithm “with no human input.”
“We felt great regret and this has hurt the feelings of Hong Kong people,” Tang said, The Standard reported. He argued that Google provided paid advertising services to allow specific results to appear on top searches….