Google employees petition Google to shut down its work on controversial censored search engine for China

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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,' the petition reads.

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techinsider This is disgusting. I'm so happy the employees spoke out, it's more than likely Google will make their employees sign a non-disclosure agreement from now on. So, no one can dispute the projects outwardly.

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