"DRAGONFLY"
TOP GOOGLE SCIENTIST QUITS OVER PLAN FOR CENSORED CHINESE SEARCH ENGINE
‘I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents’
BY MIKAEL THALEN
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/top-google-scientist-quits-over-plan-for-censored-chinese-search-engine/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
A top Google employee has resigned in protest of the company’s work on a censored search engine for China.
The employee, 32-year-old Jack Poulson, who worked as a senior research scientist for Google’s research and machine intelligence division, first raised concerns at the company in early August after documents published by The Intercept first revealed the project’s existence.
Known internally as Dragonfly, the censored search engine would allow the Chinese government to keep its citizens from accessing any data it deems sensitive.
Poulson, who is believed to be one of at least 5 employees to quit over Dragonfly, told The Intercept‘s Ryan Gallagher that he felt an “ethical responsibility to resign” over the “forfeiture of our public human rights commitments.”
Aside from the censored search engine, Poulson also expressed concern over customer data being hosted in China, a country notorious for targeting dissidents.
Poulson laid out his issues with Dragonfly and Google’s direction in a resignation letter to his superiors.
“Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents,” Poulson wrote. “I view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe.”
The decision to pursue such projects, Poulson further argued, could lead to other authoritarian regimes making similar demands.
“There is an all-too-real possibility that other nations will attempt to leverage our actions in China in order to demand our compliance with their security demands,” Poulson wrote.
Despite growing outcry over Dragonfly, Google has thus far refused to publicly comment on the project, only stating that it does not discuss “speculation about future plans.”
Just last month a group of leading human rights organizations called on Google to immediately cease its involvement with the project.
“Like many of Google’s own employees, we are extremely concerned by reports that Google is developing a new censored search engine app for the Chinese market,” a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai said. “The Chinese government extensively violates the rights to freedom of expression and privacy; by accommodating the Chinese authorities’ repression of dissent, Google would be actively participating in those violations for millions of internet users in China.”
More than 1,400 Google employees also signed a similar letter last month demanding the company let its workers know what it was developing.
“Currently we do not have the information required to make ethically-informed decisions about our work, our projects, and our employment. That the decision to build Dragonfly was made in secret, and progressed with the [artificial intelligence] Principles in place, makes clear that the Principles alone are not enough,” the letter said. “We urgently need more transparency, a seat at the table, and a commitment to clear and open processes: Google employees need to know what we’re building.”
Google had previously built a search engine for China in 2006 but ended the program four years later after saying the Communist government attempted to curtail free speech and even tried to hack their computer systems as well.
Pichai, Google’s CEO, also refused earlier this month to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee to answer questions regarding Dragonfly.
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SEE: https://www.infowars.com/leftist-tech-giants-chicoms-celebrate-book-burning-in-new-ben-garrison-art/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The big tech elite, Democrats and the Communist Chinese government are reveling in their destruction of the First Amendment, in a new politically-incorrect cartoon from illustrator Ben Garrison
#ThursdayThoughts #StopTheBias #BenGarrison #Cartoon The Burning Times- Burn the heretics #SocialMedia #CensorshipMachine #grrrGraphics cartoons read the post at grrrgraphics.com/the-burning-ti…
In the past few weeks, the anti-free speech agenda of the left-leaning tech giants has become clear – destroy anyone who supports Trump and America’s recovery ahead of the midterm elections.
From Ben Garrison at GrrrGraphics.com:
Infowars has been banned by Facebook. Please help by sharing this article on your own Facebook page.The authoritarian left continues to shut down free speech and they’re getting away with it.Their latest victim, ‘Roosh,’ sold his books for years on Amazon. His books mostly proffered advice about picking up girls. It’s an unsavory subject to many—especially feminists—but it’s his free speech and he wasn’t advising anything illegal. Bezos suddenly pulled the plug on Roosh’s books—many which were selling well. Who’s next? Conservative cartoonist books because the content offends the left?It’s often said that the Internet and social media are the new ‘town square.’ Realizing that, the left-leaning Silicon Valley controls and monopolizes that town square. At first they claimed to be equivalent to the phone company. They provided the platform and access and let the users add the content in the form of free speech. That’s now no longer the case. Clearly Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are skewing content in favor of the left.A 60 minute video of a 2016 meeting with top management at Google was released to Breitbart today, revealing their panic and dismay that Hillary had lost and Trump won. Google’s top executives, who preside over a company with unrivaled influence over the flow of information, are disparaging the motivations of Trump voters and plotting ways to use their vast resources to thwart the Trump agenda. Google is nothing more than Democrat propaganda and used to influence voters and swing elections.
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/
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Google is facing backlash after a report was released by The Intercept alleged Google was working on a confidential project, code-named "Dragonfly, that is allegedly for China and it will censor certain searches on topics like human rights, democracy, and religion. Ian Sherr, CNET News executive editor, joined CBSN to discuss.SEE ALSO:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/
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