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Google Employees Are Quitting Over the Company’s Secretive China Search Project

• prolikewh0a 8y ago
  Only 7? What about the other employees? It seems Software Engineers are extremely amoral and are at direct fault for putting us directly in society's privacy & censorship problem in the first place, with no care because the paycheck, QC35's, and a mini australian shepherd is more important than questioning what they're making.
  • kgwxd 8y ago
    If everyone quit their job because of a moral dilemma, no one would be working, especially in tech (children make the parts for the things we build on and for). Quitting just opens the door for another employee. That employee may or may not care about the issue. The person that just quit did care and was in a better position to actually make a change. They're supposed to strike, not quit.
    • awgneo 8y ago
      How often do tech people actually strike?
      • kgwxd 8y ago
        Not enough, they just seem to quit. Maybe because it's so easy for them to find another job compared to other fields.
• IBM 8y ago
  A new update in the Dragonfly story: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/ https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l...
• tareqak 8y ago
  Here is the same story from The Intercept yesterday: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/ https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engi... . I found this article from a link inside the `IBM's post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17991450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17991450 (thanks `IBM).
  • dang 8y ago
    Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17980424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17980424
• ddtaylor 8y ago
  Cancel culture doesn't work.