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Google Admits Existence of Censored Chinese Search Engine Project; Dodges Questions at Hearing
PlanetFreeWill.com ^

Posted on 09/27/2018 10:41:35 AM PDT by PFW

Within a Senate privacy hearing on Wednesday – which was seemingly swept out of the media spotlight by the lead up to today’s Judiciary Committee’s hearing involving a Brett Kavanaugh accuser – Google’s chief privacy officer Keith Enright admitted the existence of Project Dragonfly, reportedly a censored search engine for China.

During the hearing, members of the Senate Commerce Committee pressed Enright on how Google’s policies protecting user data would square up with the till-then rumored sanctioned search engine for China.

Before Wednesday’s hearing, Google had refused to confirm or comment on the reports claiming it has begun working on a project called “Dragonfly,” but the Google chief told lawmakers on Wednesday that “there is a Project Dragonfly.”

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The project first came to light through a report in The Intercept on September 21 that detailed how Google “forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China.”

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; google

1 posted on 09/27/2018 10:41:35 AM PDT by PFW
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To: PFW

Sometimes you need to admin something small (i.e. a censored search in China) to hide something big (i.e. a censored search in the US)


2 posted on 09/27/2018 10:45:58 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: PFW

Google is willingly creating an instrument of oppression for the oppressive chinese government.


3 posted on 09/27/2018 11:04:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: I want the USA back

Google is Evil.

Like selecting chosen Jews to murder, Google gladly selects which Christians & homosexuals for China to murder.


4 posted on 09/27/2018 11:55:32 AM PDT by TheNext (Anonymous Source)
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