Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt advocated for a censored search engine in China

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The former Google executive said he believed in 2010 that keeping its service in China could have forced the country to 'be more open.'

to say he believed the company should not remain in China at the time, telling Spiegel that the censorship "was a real step backward."

"The company, after an appropriate debate, decided to move to Hong Kong," Schmidt said. "We don't know whether my strategy would have worked or not." Schmidt "couldn't say" if the renewed China initiative, known internally as Project Dragonfly, was finished for good. The project had sparked anat Google last year who claimed in an open letter that it was contrary to the company's values. But Schmidt said employees working on the project were very much aware of its purpose.

"I wasn't involved in those decisions, but I can tell you that certainly the people who were building all these products knew about it," he told the BBC. "And in any case, the company is not pursuing those products at this moment according to our new CEO Sundar [Pichai]." Schmidt first joined Google as CEO in 2001, back when the company only had several hundred employees, and became its executive chairman 10 years later, handing the CEO role over to co-founder Larry Page. He

 

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Judas would do the unthinkable for 30 pieces of silver, I guess Eric and his company would do the same.

Not too bright on the political end

anything for money and wealth.

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