The Chinese government is known for establishing a very tall-tech surveillance and censorship system for their citizens. However,they can’t do it without some help. Enter Google. A secret project called “Dragonfly” has been reportedly working on providing the Chinese government with a highly censored search engine with surveillance and AI capabilities. Also, the project would provide “personalized mobile news.” As news of this leaked to Google’s own employees, or many became outraged,citing ethical and moral concerns, reported Gizmodo.
The open letter pointed out the hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.) of the act, or citing Google’s decision to remove censored web search from China eight years ago. Then,Sergey Brin said that “In some aspects of [government] policy, particularly with respect to censorship, and with respect to surveillance of dissidents,I see some earmarks of totalitarianism.”Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com