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There’s a big difference between Google making data available to the Chinese government, which is what Dragonfly would do, and Google making their expertise at
by traek 8y ago
There’s a big difference between Google making data available to the Chinese government, which is what Dragonfly would do, and Google making their expertise at cataloguing and searching information available to the Chinese government, which has not been reported.
The only information that the Chinese government would have access to from Google is info they already have from Baidu.
- j2kun 8y agoDragonfly catalogues and indexes searches for dissident topics, linking them to the searcher's phone number. Literally a search engine for dissidents.
- darawk 8y agoDo you have reason to believe that exceeds their current capabilities?
- traek 8y agoAnd that's different from Baidu in what way? If it's not worse than the status quo, then it's not a negative impact of bringing Dragonfly to China.
- pas 8y agoHow do you know that the number of atrocities committed in the future by the Chinese state is independent of Google being there or not? Maybe people unaware of DragonFly will try riskier search phrases on Google than on Baidu. And the problem gets especially bad if they find whatever they were looking for. As in this case the state has evidence on consuming "politically dangerous" material. (Not that they can't fake it otherwise.)