"Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal", 1 August 2018

Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest....The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway...and accelerated following a...meeting between Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and a top Chinese government official....

Google’s search service cannot currently be accessed by most internet users in China because it is blocked by the country’s so-called Great Firewall. The Chinese government blocks information on the internet about political opponents, free speech, sex, news, and academic studies. It bans websites about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, for instance, and references to “anticommunism” and “dissidents.”

...Google’s Chinese search app will automatically identify and filter websites blocked by the Great Firewall. Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members.... The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity...said that they had moral and ethical concerns about Google’s role in the censorship...“I’m against large companies and governments collaborating in the oppression of their people...” the source said, adding that they feared “what is done in China will become a template for many other nations.”...