Google Censorship Plan Is “Not Right” and “Stupid,” Says Former Google Head of Free Expression
Lokman Tsui said a planned censored search engine will put Google in a weak position and alienate employees.
Google’s internal project to bring censored search back to China, Dragonfly, was kept secret until revealed by The Intercept. Internal dissent, objections from senators and the vice president, and worldwide protests followed. Ryan Gallagher reports.
Lokman Tsui said a planned censored search engine will put Google in a weak position and alienate employees.
The company sampled searches from a Beijing-based website to hone its blacklists.
A bipartisan group of six U.S. senators is demanding information from Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the company's leaked China censorship plans.
After The Intercept revealed Google's censored search engine for China, employees are “upset and scared” as executives restrict information, sources said.
Search app that will "blacklist sensitive queries" could be launched in six to nine months, according to documents and people familiar with the plans.
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