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27 Nov 2018

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Google Employees Against Dragonfly, Medium

We are Google employees. Google must drop Dragonfly.

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We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market that enables state surveillance... We are among thousands of employees who have raised our voices for months... So far, our leadership’s response has been unsatisfactory... Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be...  Dragonfly in China would establish a dangerous precedent at a volatile political moment, one that would make it harder for Google to deny other countries similar concessions... Providing the Chinese government with ready access to user data, as required by Chinese law, would make Google complicit in oppression and human rights abuses... Dragonfly would also enable censorship and government-directed disinformation... Many of 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. 

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