Comment by sneak

Whether or not this author's site was or was not hosting malicious content is irrelevant to the thrust of the article, which is that due to browser marketshare, Google has a vast censorship capability at the ready that nobody really talks about or thinks about.

Think about the jurisdiction Google is in deciding that they want to force Google to shut down certain websites that correspond to apps that they've already had them and Apple ban from the App Store, for "national security" or whatever.

This is one mechanism for achieving that.