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Google Workers Ask Bosses To Cancel Censored Search Engine For China


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2018 Nov 27, 8:14am   875 views  2 comments

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/china-google-workers-letter-cancel-company-secret-dragonfly

In a letter published Tuesday morning, Google workers asked their bosses to cancel a project called Dragonfly, a controversial censored search app for the Chinese market. Additionally, employees asked that the company promise no backlash against whistleblowers making details of secret internal projects known if they were in the public's interest.

"We are Google employees who are joining with Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel Project Dragonfly and guarantee protections for whistleblowers," the employees said in a statement ahead of publishing their letter.


Google is all about censorship and spying, why would this project be any different?

It's like asking Google to cancel Google.

In related news: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive

Consumer groups across seven European countries have filed GDPR complaints against Google’s location tracking (via Reuters). The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), of which each of the groups are a member, claims that Google’s “deceptive practices” around location tracking don’t give users a real choice about whether to enable it, and that Google doesn’t properly inform them about what this tracking entails.

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1   theoakman   2018 Nov 27, 8:21am  

Patrick says
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/china-google-workers-letter-cancel-company-secret-dragonfly

In a letter published Tuesday morning, Google workers asked their bosses to cancel a project called Dragonfly, a controversial censored search app for the Chinese market. Additionally, employees asked that the company promise no backlash against whistleblowers making details of secret internal projects known if they were in the public's interest.

"We are Google employees who are joining with Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel Project Dragonfly and guarantee protections for whistleblowers," the employees said in a statement ahead of publishing their letter.


Google is all about censorship and spying, why would this project be any different? It's like asking Google to cancel Google.

In related ...


I'm actually astounded by the amount of morons that google hires at a very high salary.
2   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2018 Nov 27, 9:54am  

Google is very hypocritical about their stances and what they believe in.

They say they support freedom, yet they are willing to go along with Chinese government that has 2 billion people enslaved behind the great wall, and not say a word about it. Making a deal with their slave masters.

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