Google Employees Join Amnesty in Protesting ‘Dragonfly’ Censored Search Engine for China
Nov. 28, 2018Google employees have come together calling out the company to dropProject Dragonfly. They wrote an open letter urging the company to drop the project. You can read the letter righthere.
Project Dragonfly is the internal codename for Google’s initiative to build a new search engine for the Chinese market that would comply with Beijing’s strict rules on censorship.
Amnesty International, an organization that fights against abuses of human rights worldwide has launched a global petition calling on Google CEOSundar Pichaito drop the project. You can sign the petitionhere.
Soon after the petition went live, the open letter signed by eleven Google employees was posted online. It got a lot of attention, and the number of signatures quickly grew.
“We are Google employees. Google must drop Dragonfly.”
The letter reads, “Manyof us accepted employment at Google with the company’s values in mind, including its previous position on Chinese censorship and surveillance, and an understanding that Google was a company willing to place its values above its profits. After a year of disappointments including Project Maven, Dragonfly, and Google’s support for abusers, we no longer believe this is the case. This is why we’re taking a stand.”
The number of signatures seems to be growing in numbers, and you can follow all the developments in the actions against Project Dragonflyhere.
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