[shadowgovt]

Nothing is being censored here; it's a simple recommendation. If they start censoring personal correspondence, they open up a huge opportunity for another option to disrupt them. It's not an impossible scenario, but it's an unlikely (and more importantly: self-correcting) scenario.

[gurkendoktor]

Self-correcting because frustrated users will simply start their own Google? Even if that happens, their second generation of employees will start a revolt if their company doesn't follow the latest DIE best practices.

I honestly think that only the Russian/Chinese model of a nationalized IT ecosystem has a chance to resist these trends.

[shadowgovt]

Self-correcting because Google already has competition in the cloud editor space. Office suites are valuable software with an obvious business model for monetization.

> I honestly think that only the Russian/Chinese model of a nationalized IT ecosystem

That wouldn't solve the underlying problem if the nation decides some words are inappropriate (in fact, if we're thinking anti-censorship you may have chosen two particularly bad examples ;) ). It's power structures all the way down.