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Dragonfly.
by forgottenpass 8y ago
Dragonfly.
- hcnews 8y agoDragonfly is a complex topic. The good part about it is that Google is still having a conversation about it and hasn't launched the product once it was publicly known. Note that I was born in India and have different views than American citizens due to having first hand experience with what information can do to transform lives.
- jonny_eh 8y agoWhat's your point?
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- izacus 8y agoGoogle employees risked their jobs to protest against Dragonfly.
- x220 8y agopeople with perhaps the highest demand for their labor than any other professionals risked their cushy jobs to influence their company to not be complicit in the censorship of over a billion people with a regime that has committed genocide? that's superhuman dedication right there, good job Google superheroes
- kevinh 8y agoThere are other tech companies doing related work in China. Are you saying that the employees of those companies are all complicit with genocidal actions?
- x220 8y agoAssisting a regime (which has committed genocide) with censorship isn't the same as assisting genocide. That should be clear from reading my comment.
- skybrian 8y agoSomeone risked their job to leak it to the press. The average Google employee joining a protest isn't risking anything since Google has a tradition of internal debate.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoEnded before it even launched. https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/ https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-se... Compare to Apple, which actually handed over the iCloud keys of all its Chinese customers to the Chinese government. We should continue to pressure Google to make fewer mistakes like these, but let's not pretend they're in the same league as truly bad actors like Apple and Facebook when it comes to privacy.