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Google Employees Call Company To Pull Chinese Search+Censorship Project

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Dozens of Google employees have signed a letter calling for the company to scrap involvement in Project Dragonfly, a Chinese search product that enables the…
Dozens of Google employees have signed a letter calling for the company to scrap involvement in Project Dragonfly, a Chinese search product that enables the government to censor search results in real time.
Early Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that a dozen employees were on board, calling for Google to pull support from Dragonfly.
A dozen current Googlers signed a new petition to cancel Dragonfly. This time, they listed their names publicly.
“Dragonfly in China would establish a dangerous precedent at a volatile political moment.” https://t.co/thqcl7fr7L https://t.co/jCfO4daCRn
— Mark Bergen (@mhbergen) November 27,2018
Making a bold statement, those employees allowed their names to be released publicly. In addition to calling for an end to Google’s involvement in the project, they called for protections for whistle-blowers.
Here are the twelve, non-anonymous Googlers who have so far signed their names to the open letter asking Google to shut down Project Dragonfly.

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